Department of Economics and Business Economics

Professor Emeritus, Dr.Pol.
MSc, Åbo Akademi University, 1976
PhD, Åbo Akademi University, 1986

Member of the Economics Section
Research Secretary: Malene Vindfeldt Skals

Research Interests

• Labour Economics, in particular Personnel Economics
• Intergenerational Mobility
• Health Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Google h-score 40; i10-score: 74;  end-of-March 2023: 7,000 citations

Teaching

• The Chinese Economy

• Economics of Human Resources, Personnel Economics (Oecon, MBA, FMOL)

PhD level

• Topics in Personnel and Labour Economics (Univ. Zurich)

Some Recent Publications 

• Maternal education, child health and nutrition — evidence from China’s compulsory education law, forthc. in Applied Economics (with C. Liu)

• The health impacts of two policies regulating SO₂ air pollution: Evidence from China, China Economic Review 2023 (with Y Wang, N Luo)
• Offspring Migration and Nutritional Status of Left-behind Older Adults in Rural China. Economics and Human Biology 41 (2021), 100996 (with C. Liu and F. Yi) 
• Gender Stereotyping and Self-stereotyping among Danish Managers. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 2021, (36:5), 622-639  (with N. Smith and V. Smith)
• Påvirker brugen af struktureret ledelse i danske virksomheder deres performance? Rapport, januar 2021 (med Valdemar Smith)
• Ledelsesstile, ledelsesværktøjer og performance. Rapport, december 2020 (med Valdemar Smith)
• The Mediating Role of Decentralization between Strategy and Performance: Evidence from Danish Firms. Journal of Organizational Change Management 2019 (32:4), 409-425 (with Q. Chen)
• Up for Review: Unraveling the Link between Formal Evaluations and Performance-Based Rewards. Industrial Relations 2019 (58:1), 108-137(with R. Bonet and J. Ortega)  
• Off-farm Employment, Land Renting and Concentration of Farmland in the Process of Urbanization: Chinese Evidence. China Agricultural Economic Review 2018 (10:2), 338-350 (with W. Su and L. Zhang)
• Saving Face and Group Identity. Experimental Economics 2017 (20), 622-647 (with L. Mao and M.C. Villeval)
• Leading Well Pays off: Mediating Effects and Multi-group Analysis of Strategic Importance. Management Decision, 2017, 55:2, 400-412 (with Q. Chen and L. Giustiniano)
• Off-farm Employment and Time Allocation in On-farm Work in Rural China from Gender Perspective. China Economic Review, 2016, 41, 34-45 (with Y. Bai, L. Zhang and W. Su)
• How Off-farm Employment Affects Technical Efficiency of China's Farms: The Case of Jiangsu. China & World Economy 2016, 24, 37-51 (with L. Zhang, W. Su and C. Liu)
• Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility of Workers, in: G. Cooper and G. Saridakis (eds.), Research Handbook on Employee Turnover, Edward Elgar, 2016, pp. 127-153
• God ledelse og god performance i danske virksomheder og organisationer. (with V. Smith). Se:https://www.lederne.dk/presse-og-nyheder/undersoegelser/ledelse/god-ledelse-og-god-performance-i-danske-virksomheder-og-organisationer
• Intergenerational Inequality of Health in China, China Economic Review 2014, 31, 392-409 (with J. Pan and X. Qin)
• Wages or Fringes: Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting, Journal of Labor Economics 2014 (32:4), 899-928 (with N. Kristensen)
• Life Cycle Development of Obesity and Its Determinants in Six European Countries, Economics and Human Biology 2014 (14), 62-78 (with S. Cavaco and A. Skalli)
• Firm-level Innovation Activity, Employee Turnover and HRM Practices – Evidence from Chinese Firms, China Economic Review 2014 (30), 583-597(with Z. Qin and W. Wang)
• Macroeconomic Shocks and Firms' Labor Adjustment, Finnish Economic Papers 2013, 26(1), 25-35
• High Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 2013, 60(3), 232-266 (with A. Cristini and D. Pozzoli)
• Increased Sorting and Wage Inequality in the Czech Republic: New Evidence Using Linked Employer-Employee Dataset, Economics of Transition 2013, 21(2), 357-380 (with M. Pytlikova and F. Warzynski)
• HRM Practices and the Within-Firm Gender Wage Gap, British Journal of Industrial Relations 2012 (50:3), 554-580 (with N. Datta Gupta)
• Progression of HR Practices in Danish Firms during Two Decades, Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, 2012, Vol. 13, 237-266
• The Role of Family Background for Earnings in Rural China, Frontiers of Economics in China, 2012 (7:3), 465-477(with Y. Zhang)
• Healthy Personnel Policies, International Journal of Manpower, 2012 (33:3), 233-245
• Attracting Public Service Motivated Employees: How to Design Compensation Packages,  International Review of Administrative Sciences,  2012 (78), 615-641(with L. B. Andersen, N. Kristensen and L. H. Pedersen)
• Respect and Relational Contracts, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012 (81), 286-298 (with M.C. Villeval)
• Incentive Contracts and Time Use, Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2011 (8:1), 1-32 (with J. Ortega)
• Foreign Ownership and Wages in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Czech Republic, Economics of Transition 2011 (19:2), 371-395 (with M. Pytliková)
• Guest Editor of Volume 11 of Advances in Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2010
• Inequality of Opportunity and Income Inequality in Nine Chinese Provinces, China Economic Review, 2010 (21), 607-616 (with Y. Zhang)
• Unemployment and Mental Disorders - Evidence from Danish Panel Data, International Journal of Mental Health, 2010 (39:2), 56-74 (with E. Agerbo. P.B. Mortensen and N. Westergård-Nielsen)
• Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization - What Have We Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and Their Employees?, in: D. Marsden and F. Rycx (eds.), Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization: Evidence from Linked and Firm-level Panel Data Sets. Palgrave Mcmillan, 2010, 221-243.

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