Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002 (2008)
Bjørnskov, Christian, Gupta, Nabanita Datta, Pedersen, Peder J.
Previous empirical research has been unable to find a sufficient correlationbetween subjective well-being and per capita income, being hampered by limited longitudinal information and an inability to...
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytlikova, Mariola
nullWe look at migration flows from 8 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to 5 Nordic countries over the years 1985 - 2005 and we can exploit a natural experiment that arose from the fact...
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...
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytlikova, Mariola
nullIn this paper we look at migration flows from 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) to 5 Nordic countries over the years 1985 - 2007. We exploit a natural experiment that arose from...
Pytlikova, Mariola, Pedersen, Peder J.
We look at migration flows from 8 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to 5 Nordic countries over the years 1985 - 2005 and we can exploit a natural experiment that arose from the fact that...
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty Among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden (2007)
Verner, Mette, Pedersen, Peder J., Blume, Kræn, Gustafsson, Björn
To stay or not to stay? Out-migration of immigrants from Denmark (2007)
Jensen, Peter, Pedersen, Peder J.
nullA major portion of migration flows are temporary, ending with return migration to the home country or migration to a third country. However, the propensity to return differs according to...
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...
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...
Unemployment. A Review of the Evidence from Panel Data (2000)
Pedersen, Peder J., Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Chr.
This article surveys the empirical literature on unemployment which is based on panel data.
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.
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
Chômage: ce que montrent les données individuelles longitudinales (1993)
Pedersen, Peder J., Westergard-Nielsen, Niels
Cette étude examine les résultats obtenus à partir d'enquêtes sur des données de panel concernant les facteurs qui affectent les transitions d'un individu d'une situation à l'autre sur le...
Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000
Mona Larsen, Peder J. Pedersen
This paper describes and analyses the pathways to early retirement in Denmark. The analyses are based on a 10 per cent panel sample of the population 45-66 years old followed from 1984 onwards. We...
Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience
The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the problems encountered in this area. The first part of the paper describes the...
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...
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
Blume, Kræn, Gustafsson, Björn, Pedersen, Peder J., Verner, Mette
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s. Denmark and Sweden share the same properties in a range of...
Long-run international trends in aggregate unionization
Neumann, George, Pedersen, Peder J., Westergard-Nielsen, Niels
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...
The macroeconomic strike model: A study of seventeen countries, 1948û1975.
Martin Paldam, Peder J. Pedersen
This paper reports the results of an analysis of data on industrial conflict (strikes and lockouts) in seventeen OECD countries during the period 1948-75. A number of models are tested on this broad...
The macroeconomic strike model: A study of seventeen countries, 1948û1975.
Martin Paldam, Peder J. Pedersen
This paper reports the results of an analysis of data on industrial conflict (strikes and lockouts) in seventeen OECD countries during the period 1948-75. A number of models are tested on this broad...
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...
What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Christian Bjørnskov, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Peder J. Pedersen
Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall’s Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a...
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...
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...
The Effects of Pension Programme Incentives on Retirement Behavior in Denmark
Bingley, Paul, Gubta, Nabanita Datta, Pedersen, Peder J.
The effects of pension programme incentives on retirement in Denmark are analysed in an option value framework. Using eligibility criteria and detailed entitlement rules for the five main publicly...
Non-Response Bias – A Study Using Matched Survey-Register Labour Market Data
The present paper is part of a Nordic project on search, adaptation and unemployment benefits. Financial support is gratefully acknowledged from The Nordic Council of Ministers and from NOS-S, the...
Post-War Growth of the Danish Economy
Economic growth in Denmark in the post-war years has been close to the OECD average. The `golden age' of very high growth was, however, of shorter duration in Denmark than in most other OECD...
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...
A Tale of Two Countries: Poverty among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden since 1984
Blume, Kraen, Gustafsson, Bjorn, Pedersen, Peder J., Verner, Mette
poverty, immigrants, panel data
Pedersen, Peder J., Pytliková, Mariola
In this paper we look at migration flows from 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) to 5 Nordic countries over the years 1985 – 2007. We exploit a natural experiment that arose from the...
Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Galloway, Taryn Ann, Gustafsson, Björn, Pedersen, Peder J., Österberg, Torun
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent...
Pathways to early retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000
Mona Larsen, Peder J. Pedersen
Purpose – The paper seeks to describe the multitude of pathways to early exit from the labour force and to estimate how individuals allocate into different pathways out of the labour force...
Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Pedersen, Peder J., Schmidt, Torben Dall
The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and...