Department of Economics

bleco

Department of Economics

Birthe
Larsen
Associate professor
,
PhD


Room: POR/16.A-1.89
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Birthe Larsen
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Birthe Larsen holds a master of economics from London School of Economics and did her PhD. at the University of Copenhagen. She has spent longer research periods at IIES, Stockholm, Melbourne University, Australia and Insead in France. Her main research focuses on unemployment in search and matching models, including projects concerning the informal sector, education, discrimination and minimum wages. Recent research projects include also trade issues and empirical work.   

Primary research areas
  • Search and matching models
  • Labour-macro economics
  • Unemployment
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Courses
  • Full-Time MBA macroeconomics, Macroeconomics for International Business and International Business and Politics students, Macroeconomics I and II for students of Mathematical Economics,  Personnel Economics.
Selected publications
  • Bennedsen, Morten, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte, and Daniela Scur, 2020. ‘Preserving job matches during the COVID-19 pandemic: Firm-level evidence on the role of government aid’ Covid Economics, issue 27. https://cepr.org/content/covid-economics-vetted-and-real-time-papers-0
  • Amore, Mario D., Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen & Philip Rosenbaum, 2019. CEO Education and Corporate Environmental Footprint. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94, 254-273. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2019.02.001
  • Kolm, Ann-Sofie & Birthe Larsen, 2019. ‘Underground activities and Labour Market Performance’, International Tax and Public Finance, 41-70, February.
  • Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen, 2016, ‘Informal Unemployment and Education’.  IZA Journal of Labour Economics, 5:8.
  • Gisela Waisman and Birthe Larsen, 2016, ‘Income, Amenities and Negative Attitudes’. IZA Journal of Migration, 2016 5:8.
  • Birthe Larsen and Gisela Waisman, 2016, ‘Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill.’ Economic Inquiry, Vol 54, No 3, p. 1574-1595.
  • Filges, Trine, John Kennes, Birthe Larsen and Torben Tranæs 2011 ‘Labour Market Programmes and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-off‘. Journal of Macroeconomics, 33, p.738-753.
  • Waisman, Gisela and Birthe Larsen 2009, ’Hvordan indvandreres mobilitet påvirkes af negative holdninger’, in Svend E. Hougaard Jensen (ed) ’Design og Styring af Institutioner’, DJØF forlag.
  • Alstadsæter, Annette, Ann-Sofe Kolm and Birthe Larsen 2008, ’Tax Effects on Unemployment and the Choice of Educational Type’. European Journal of Political Economy, 24 (1), p.107-122.
  • Trine Filges and Birthe Larsen, 2005, 'Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition'. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 107, 3, pp 495-520.
  • Birthe Larsen 2001, Minimum Wages, 'Technological Progress and Loss of Skill', European Economic Review, vol 45, pp. 1521-1544.
Publications sorted by:
2023
Morten Bennedsen; Birthe Larsen; Jiayi Wei / Gender Wage Transparency and the Gender Pay Gap : A Survey.
In: Journal of Economic Surveys, 29.1.2023
Journal article > peer review
Emilie Agner Damm; Mette Ejrnæs; Birthe Larsen / Redaktionelt forord
In: Samfundsøkonomen, No. 2, 2023, 3 p., p. 2-4
Editorial
2022
Birthe Larsen / Comment on K. Huttunen & H. Pesola: COVID-19 and Labour Market Outcomes by Gender in Finland
In: Nordic Economic Policy Review 2022: COVID-19 Effects on the Economy in the Nordics. . ed. /Harry Flam; Oskar Nordström Skans. Copenhagen : Nordic Council of Ministers 2022, 2 p., p. 222-223 (Nord, No. 2022:001) (Nordic Economic Policy Review)
Comment
Mario Daniele Amore; Morten Bennedsen; Birthe Larsen / Neighborhood CEOs
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2022, 45 p. (Working Paper / Department of Economics. Copenhagen Business School, No. 10-2022)
Working paper
Morten Bennedsen; Birthe Larsen; Jiayi Wei / Wage Transparency and the Gender Pay Gap : A Survey.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2022, 22 p. (Working Paper / Department of Economics. Copenhagen Business School, No. 11-2022)
Working paper
Morten Bennedsen; Birthe Larsen; Jiayi Wei / Wage Transparency and the Gender Pay Gap : A Survey.
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2022, 29 p. (Working Paper / Department of Economics. Copenhagen Business School, No. 17-2022)
Working paper
Justin Bloesch; Birthe Larsen; Bledi Taska / Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? : Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power.
: SSRN: Social Science Research Network 2022, 74 p.
Working paper
Antoine Bertheu; Marianna Kudlyak; Birthe Larsen; Morten Bennedsen / Why Firms Lay Off Workers instead of Cutting Wages : Evidence from Matched Survey-Administrative Data.
: SSRN: Social Science Research Network 2022, 86 p.
Working paper
2021
Birthe Larsen; Gisela Waisman / Choice of Social Security System
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School [wp] 2021, 39 p. (Working Paper / Department of Economics. Copenhagen Business School, No. 07-2021)
Working paper > peer review
Michael Dithmer; Jørgen Elmeskov; Birthe Larsen; Yvette Lind; Martin Ulrik Jensen; Michael Skaarup / Rapport fra arbejdsgruppen Principper for hjælpepakker ved nye epidemier
København : Erhvervsministeriet 2021, 132 p.
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Outside activities
  1. Beskæftigelsesministeriets prisbedømmelsesudvalg
  2. Kommissorium for arbejdsgruppe vedr. kompensation for indgreb som følge af epidemiloven

https://em.dk/nyhedsarkiv/2021/juni/arbejdsgruppen-vedr-kompensation-for-indgreb-som-foelge-af-epidemiloven-har-afholdt-foerste-moede/

  1. Nationalbank Research Advisory Council
  2. Opinion pieces in Information and Børsen