The impact of Nordic countries' family friendly policies on employment, wages, and children (2008)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina, Verner, Mette
The Nordic countries at the same time exhibit a remarkably high participation rate of mothers and a more moderate decline in fertility rates compared to other Western countries. This has been...
De økonomiske effekter af familievenlig politik i de nordiske lande (2008)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina, Verner, Mette
I denne artikel belyser vi den senesteforskning indenfor effekterne af familiepolitikken i de nordiske lande. Vi spørger, hvilke fordele og ulemper familiepolitikken har haft for ligestillingen,for...
Brug jeres egne gode eksempler (2008)
Søndergaard, Jørgen, Smith, Nina, Egelund, Niels, Andersen, Grethe, Birkving, Kirsten
Misvisende gennemsnit i folkeskolen (2008)
Søndergaard, Jørgen, Egelund, Niels, Smith, Nina, Birkving, Kirsten, Andersen, Grethe
Selection and network effects - Migration flows into OECD countries 1990-2000 (2008)
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
This paper presents empirical evidence on immigration flows into the OECD countries during the period 1990-2000. Our results indicate that network effects are strong, but vary between different...
Women in Top Management and Firm Performance (2008)
Smith, Nina, Smith, Valdemar, Verner, Mette
nullThe purpose of this study is to present new evidence on the relationship between gender diversity in management and firm performance. According to corporate governance literature, board diversity...
Gender differences in promotion into top-management jobs (2008)
Bell, Linda, Smith, Nina, Smith, Valdemar, Verner, Mette
nullIn this paper the promotion process of top executive officers (CEOs) in Danish private firms is analysed. The main research question to be analysed is whether the lower chances for women to...
Datta Gupta, Nabanita, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina
Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...
Analyzing Trends in the U.S. and Danish Gender Wage Gaps in the 1980s and 1990s (2006)
Smith, Nina, Datta Gupta, Nabanita, Oaxaca, Ronald L.
Trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s are analysed within the framework of simple auto-regressive time-series models. Results show a saturation effect in the wage progress...
Selection or network effects? Migration flows into 27 OECD countries, 1990-2000 (2004)
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants...
Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000 (2004)
Pedersen, P.J., Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants...
Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000 (2004)
Pedersen, P.J., Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants...
OECD migration, welfare and skill selectivity (2003)
Pedersen, Peder, Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. According to theory, the impact of immigration depends on the skill...
Fra mangel på arbejde til mangel på arbejdskraft (2003)
Smith, Nina, Pedersen, Peder, Pedersen, Søren, Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise
The effects of taxation on married women's labour supply across four countries (2003)
Smith, Nina, Dex, Shirley, Vlasblom, Jan Dirk, Callan, Tim
The labour force participation rate of married women varies considerably between European countries. There may be several explanations for this evidence. In this study, the effect of the different...
Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark (2002)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina
Abstract: The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved...
Lavtlønnede indvandrere: Kvalifikationer, diskrimination eller assimilation? (2002)
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
Uddannelse og arbejde for andengenerationsindvandrere (2002)
Hummelgaard, Hans, Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Disincentives Matter? (2002)
Pedersen, Peder J., Smith, Nina
This paper analyses the importance of financial disincentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate...
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage...
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation...
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation...
Barselsorlov: Fakta og myter (2001)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Christoffersen, Mogens Nygaard, Smith, Nina
Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First-generation immigrants in Denmark (2001)
Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995....
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage...
Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark (2000)
Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995....
Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark (2000)
Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995....
Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Earnings of Immigrant Women (2000)
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We...
Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Earnings of Immigrant Women (2000)
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We...
Review of G. V. Mogensen and P. C. Matthiesen: Integration i Danmark omkring årtusindskriftet (2000)
Employment and Wage assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark (2000)
Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995....
Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Earnings of Immigrant Women (2000)
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We...
The transition from School to work for 2nd generation immigrants in Denmark (2000)
Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
The distribution of income in the Nordic countries. Changes and causes (1999)
Smith, Nina, Gustafsson, Björn, Aaberge, Rolf, Cappelen, Ådne, Pedersen, Peder J., Husitalo, H.
Taxation of Spouses: A Cross-Country Study of the Effects on Married Women's Labour Supply (1999)
Callan, Tim, Dex, Shirley, Smith, Nina, Vlasblom, Jan Dirk
The labour force participation rate of married women varies considerably between the European countries. There may be several explanations for this evidence. In this study, the effect of the...
A Double-Negative Effect on the Earnings of Immigrant Women? Evidence from Denmark (1999)
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Husted, L., Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
In this paper we investigate whether there exists a double-negative effect on the earnings of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a combined negative effect of gender and foreign country of...
Wage Dispersion, Public Sector Wages and the Stagnating Danish Gender Wage Gap (1998)
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina
The gender wage gap in Denmark has virtually stagnated since the early 70s. This study examines whether this stagnation is mainly due to a changing wage dispersion or to changing prices on observed...
This paper analyses the labour supply behaviour of households in Denmark and Britain. It employs models in which the preferences of individuals within the household are explicitly represented. The...
Cohort Effects on the Gender Wage Gap in Denmark (1996)
In this study the gender wage gap within three birth cohorts is analysed on the basis of a panel sample of Danish workers covering the period 1979-1990. During the latest decades there has been a...
The Danish Gender Wage Gap in the 1980s: A Panel Data Study (1996)
In Denmark the equal pay act was put into force in 1976, but the relative pay of female workers is still considerably below the level of male workers in most occupational and educational groups, and...
THE DANISH GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE 1980s: A PANEL DATA STUDY (1996)
In Denmark the equal pay act was put into force in 1976, but the relative pay of female workers is still considerably below the level of male workers in most occupational and educational groups, and...
Research plan for the Centre for Labour Market and Social Research (1994)
Smith, Nina, Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Chr., Jensen, Peter, Pedersen, Peder J., Bunzel, Henning
Thesis, Poitiers.
Bibliogr. p. 11-15. Index
Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the...
Tax Systems and Married Women's Labour Force Participation: a seven country comparison
Tim Callan, Ben Dankmeyer, Shirley Dex, S Gustafson, M Lausten, Gunther Schmaus, ...
This paper compares the ways tax and social security systems of seven European countries treat different categories of workers, especially married women in two earner households. We will discuss the...
Analysing trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith
Trends in US and Danish gender wage gaps in the 1980s and 1990s are analysed within the framework of simple auto-regressive time-series models. Results show a saturation effect in the wage progress...
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Nina Smith, Aycan Celikaksoy
We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform which generated exogenous variation in...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith
Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Mette Verner
Family friendly policies, Parental leave, Child care, Female labour force participation, Nordic countries, J1, J2, D1,
Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms
Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, Mette Verner
Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and...
Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark
Datta Gupta, Nabanita, Smith, Nina
The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on Danish longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved time-constant...
Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Dis-incentives Matter?
Pedersen, Peder J., Smith, Nina
This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate...
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage...
The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants
This paper analyses the educational attainment of young first generation immigrants in Denmark who are children of the ‘guest workers’ who immigrated from Turkey, Pakistan and Ex-Yugoslavia in...
We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women’s career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In both countries, the labour force attachment of mothers is high, and more than...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton
The word for ‘married’ in Danish is the same as the word for ‘poison’. The word for 'sweetheart' in Danish is the same as the word for 'tax'. In this paper we expand upon the literature...
Trends in Danish Income Distribution
Most of the available evidence on income distribution in Denmark is based on cross‐section studies for a number of specific years, which are difficult to compare owing to major changes in...
Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark.
Datta Gupta, Nabanita, Smith, Nina
An analysis of the effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is based on Danish longitudinal data covering the years 1980-95. The estimated model controls for unobserved...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Ronald L. Oaxaca, Nina Smith
Applying a new decomposition method to U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data, the authors compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps developed between 1983 and 1995. In Denmark, they find,...
Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark
Husted, Leif, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995....
Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation...
Overtime Work, Dual Job Holding and Taxation
Frederiksen, Anders, Graversen, Ebbe Krogh, Smith, Nina
Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on...
Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina
We compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps have developed between 1983 and 1995 using U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data. Using a new decomposition method, we show that changes in...
Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages
Bonke, Jens, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina
This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to register information on hourly...
Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants...
Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms
Nina Smith, Valdemar Smith, Mette Verner
Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and...
Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States
Aaberge, Rolf, Björklund, Anders, Jäntti, Markus, Palme, Mårten, Pedersen, Peder, Smith, Nina, ...
This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during the 1980s. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United states...
Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark
Husted, Leif, Skyt Nielsen, Helena, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which corrects...
Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark.
Gubta, Nabanita Datta, Smith, Nina
The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved time-constant...
Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Wages of Immigrant Women
Husted, Leif, Skyt Nielsen, Helena, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We...
Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Dis-incentives matter?
Pedersen, Peder J., Smith, Nina
This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate...
Tax Evasion and Work in the Underground Sector
Graversen, Ebbe Krogh, Smith, Nina
A bivariate random effect panel data model is estimated for labour supply in the taxable and the non-taxable sectors in Denmark. The results show that wage rates and non-labour income have...
Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2. generation immigrants
Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina, Husted, Leif
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2. generation...
International Migration and Migration policy in Denmark
Pedersen, Peder J., Smith, Nina
This paper gives an introduction to the persistent problems regarding labour market integration of Non-Western immigrants and refugees in Denmark. We describe changes in the flow of immigrants to...
Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Trends in the U.S. and Danish Gender Wage Gaps
Gubta, Nabanita Datta, Oaxaca, Ronald L., Smith, Nina
While the gender wage gap has reduced considerably in the U.S. since the late 1970s, in Denmark it has virtually stagnated over the same period. Using the U.S. CPS and the Danish Longitudinal Sample...
Overtime work, dual job holding and taxation
Frederiksen, Anders, Graversen, Ebbe Krogh, Smith, Nina
Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on...
The educational attainment of the children of the Danish ‘guest worker’ immigrants
This paper analyses the educational attainment of young first generation immigrants in Denmark who are children of the ‘guest workers’ who immigrated from Turkey, Pakistan and Ex-Yugoslavia in...
Career Interruptions due to Parental Leave - A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden
Parental leave mandates are associated with high female employment rates, but with reductions in relative female wages if leave is of extended duration. We analyze the impact of family policies ...
Kossowska, Anna Maria, Smith, Nina, Smith, Valdemar, Verner, Mette
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Hit Twice? Danish Evidence on the Double-Negative Effect on the Wages of Immigrant Women
Nielsen, Helena S, Rosholm, Michael, Smith, Nina
In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark stemming from a negative effect from both gender and foreign country of origin. We...
This paper analyses the labour supply behaviour of households in Denmark and Britain. It employs models in which the preferences of individuals within the household are explicitly represented. The...
The effects of taxation on married women's labour supply across four countries
Nina Smith, Shirley Dex, Jan Dirk Vlasblom, Tim Callan
The labour force participation rate of married women varies considerably between European countries. There may be several explanations for this evidence. In this study, the effect of the different...
The Danish Gender Wage Gap in the 1980s: A Panel Data Study.
In Denmark, the equal pay act was put into force in 1976 but the relative pay of female workers is still considerably below the level of male workers in most occupational and educational groups and...
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Nina Smith, Aycan Celikaksoy
We investigate the effect of immigrants’ marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform which generated exogenous variation in...
The school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants in Denmark
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith, Leif Husted
2nd generation immigrants from less developed countries have less education and a lower employment frequency compared to the native Danish youth. We analyse the school-to-work transition of these...
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith, Leif Husted
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage...
Career Interruptions Due to Parental Leave: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Sweden
Parental leave mandates are associated with high female employment rates, but with reductions in relative female wages if leave is of extended durations. If fathers were given longer periods of...
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Nina Smith, Leslie S. Stratton
Differences in the pattern of marriage, cohabitation, childbirth, and intrahousehold specialization between the United States and Denmark, as well as a rich, register-based panel sample of about...
Selection and network effects--Migration flows into OECD countries 1990-2000
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytlikova, Mariola, Smith, Nina
This paper presents empirical evidence on immigration flows into the OECD countries during the period 1990-2000. Our results indicate that network effects are strong, but vary between different...
Gender differences in promotion into top-management jobs
Bell, Linda, Smith, Nina, Smith, Valdemar, Verner, Mette
In this paper the promotion process of top executive officers (CEOs) in Danish private firms is analysed. The main research question to be analysed is whether the lower chances for women to become...
Women in Top Management and Firm Performance
Smith, Nina, Smith, Valdemar, Verner, Mette
The purpose of this study is to present new evidence on the relationship between gender diversity in management and firm performance. According to corporate governance literature, board diversity is...
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Nina Smith, Aycan Çelikaksoy
We investigate the effect of immigrants' marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform that generated exogenous variation in...