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About the Labor Research Group

The Labor Research Group at the School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus, is carrying out research in applied and theorecial labor market theory.
Its members are also associated with several other research activities.
Professor Dale T. Mortensen, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, has been appointed Niels Bohr Visiting Professor for the period 2006-2010. The professorship is based on a grant from Danish National Research Foundation. Together with Ass. Prof. Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin, he will be visiting the institute for 3-5 months each autumn.
The current research topics will be on worker and job flows, growth, and international trade. The research will be using several matched employer-employee data sets in Statistics Denmark.
A yearly Aarhus Labor Economics conference will be arranged with a topic related to the ongoing research.
Several Ph.D. and Post Doc grants will be offered as part of the Niels Bohr Visiting Professorship grant.

In 2004 the group arranged the Conference on Labour Market Models and Matched Employer-Employee Data. A conference volume has been published Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics . Have a look at the pictures from the conference.

About the Research Projects

The research projects carried out in relation to the Niels Bohr professorship are within the topic of  ”Labor Market Dynamics and Growth”.

In their review article on productivity, Bartelsman and Doms (2000) draw three lessons from empirical studies based on longitudinal plant and firm data: First, the extent of dispersion in relative productivity across production units is large. Second, the productivity rank of any unit in the distribution is highly persistent. Third, a large fraction of aggregate productivity growth is the consequence of reallocation of workers and complementary inputs from less to more productive units.

The research projects will study the implications of these facts for the dynamics of firm evolution and the distribution of firm size in an equilibrium model. Specifically, the projects intend to develop a model that captures the process of worker reallocation from less to more productive firms and can be used to determine the impact of labor market policy on reallocation, employment, wage determination, and growth.

Currently, the following research fields are defined:

Detailed Research Plans

      

PhD and Post Doc Positions

PhD and Post Doc Positions are available for research with the Labor Market Group.
The Labor Research Group is carrying out research related to worker and job flows, the effects of labor market policy, implications of and reasons for firm productivity differences, the determinants of export propositions, firm size evolution and growth through innovation. The research will be using several matched employer-employee data sets from Statistics Denmark. The Post Doc position is a temporary position with participation in research projects within the above mentioned topics.
If you are interested, please send your CV, names of references, possible papers etc. to: Professor Henning Bunzel, School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus, Building 1322, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, E-mail: hbunzel@econ.au.dk. You may contact Professor Henning Bunzel or Professor Dale T. Mortensen (dtmort@gmail.com) for further information.

Visiting the Labor Research Group

If you are interested in these data  and the overall research program, you are welcome to visit the Labor Research Group for seminars or shorter visits.

Members

Docent Henning Bunzel
Professor Bent J. Christensen
Professor Michael Rosholm
Professor Michael Svarer
Ass. Prof. Valerie Smeets
Post Doc Jesper Bagger
PhD student Sebastian Buhai
PhD student Lene Kromann
PhD student Niels K. Pedersen
PhD student Jonas Staghøj
PhD student Torben Sørensen
PhD student Rune Vejlin