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European Strains

Number	1182
Project manager	Oddbjørn Raaum
Client	NFR via ESOP
Client project no.	227072
Participants	Asbjørn Goul Bjerrum Andersen Bernt Bratsberg Esther Ann Nisja Bøler Rolf Golombek Askill H. Halse Torje Hegna Inga Heiland Maria Forthun Hoen Seongboh Hong Herman Kruse Andreas Moxnes Knut Røed Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe Yicheng Wang Yudi Wen Yuan Zi
Period	2013 - 2018

Project description

The Frisch Centre participates in the project lead by Department of Economics in three subprojects: (i) Wage and employment adjustment to the recent crisis. Linked employer-employee data from Portugal, Spain, Germany, Norway and the US will be used to study responses of firms and workers across different institutional settings regarding labor markets and wage formation, as well as implications for both wage inequality and for the general performance of labor markets in Europe, both in terms of allocation and adaptability to shocks. (ii) Entrepreneurship and growth. The comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm data set allow for an extended concept of entrepreneurship including self-employment and limited liability companies to explore issues related to the role of regional effects and internalization. We will also study how entrepreneurship can serve as a way out of unemployment and investigate how changes in compensation structures may affect entry into entrepreneurship. (iii) Economic effects of labor market flows. Worker flows across national borders trigger labor market adjustments in employment and wage structures as both receiving and sending countries experience labor supply shocks. Evidence on behavioral responses of firms to labor migrant mobility is, however, scare. The ambition is here to study empirically how a more integrated European labour market affects incentives to (re)locate production abroad either through (foreign direct investment, or through international outsourcing) may change as relative wage costs respond to migrant inflows. More abundant and cheaper labor resources may also raise the economic returns to investments in physical capital and technology.

Publications

Scientific Journal

Author(s):	Title:	Year:	Reference:	Link:
Bernt Bratsberg, Andreas Moxnes, Oddbjørn Raaum, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe	OPENING THE FLOODGATES: PARTIAL AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ADJUSTMENTS TO LABOR IMMIGRATION	2023	International Economic Review Vol 64(1), 3-21	[PDF] [DOI]
Chang, Yongsung, Jay H. Hong, Marios Karabarbounis, Yicheng Wang, Tao Zhang	Income volatility and portfolio choices	2022	Review of economic dynamics vol 44, 65-90	[DOI]
Bratsberg, Bernt, Christopher T. Dawes, Andreas Kotsadam, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Richard Öhrvall, Sven Oskarsson and Oddbjørn Raaum	Birth Order and Voter Turnout	2020	British Journal of Political Science 1-8	[PDF] [DOI]
Bratsberg, Bernt, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum	Excess Churn in Integrated Labor Markets	2020	Journal of Population Economics	[DOI]
Hoen, Maria Forthun	Immigration and the Tower of Babel: Using language barriers to identify individual labor market effects of immigration	2020	Labour Economics Vol 65	[PDF] [DOI]
Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed	Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance	2018	Economica vol 85(337), 124-151	[PDF] [DOI]
Bratsberg, Bernt and Knut Røed	The Nordic welfare model in an open European labor market	2015	Nordic Economic Policy Review 2, 19-42	[DOI]

Book chapter

Author(s):	Title:	Year:	Reference:	Link:
Bratsberg, Bernt, Ole Røgeberg, Vegard Skirbekk	The relevance of cognition in the context of population ageing	2023
Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Knut Røed	Social Insurance Design and the Economic Integration of Immigrants	2019		[PDF] [DOI]

Frisch Working Paper

Author(s):	Title:	Year:	Reference:	Link:
Hoen, Maria Forthun	Occupational crosswalk, data and language requirements	2016	No. 1	[PDF]

Other journals

Author(s):	Title:	Year:	Reference:	Link:
Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum og Knut Røed	Flyktninger på det norske arbeidsmarkedet	2016	Søkelys på arbeidslivet Vol 33(3), 185-207	[DOI]

Other publications

Author(s):	Title:	Year:	Reference:	Link:
Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Knut Røed	Excess Churn in Integrated Labor Markets	2019	IZA discussion paper no 12697	[PDF]
Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed	Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance	2016	Artikkelen kan lastes ned fra CReAM (http://www.cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/CDP_02_16.pdf) og IZA (http://ftp.iza.org/dp9729.pdf)	[PDF]