Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Emeritus Research Fellow
Niels Westergård-Nielsen is Professor of Economics at the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. He received his MSc (Econ) from the University of Aarhus in 1975 and his Ph.D. (lic.polit.) from the University of Copenhagen in 1982. He was Director of the Centre for Labour Market and Social Research (CLS) at the University of Aarhus from 1993 to 2001 and visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His major interests of research are wage formation at the individual and firm levels, unemployment and employment, matched worker and firm data, personnel economics and health economics.
Niels Westergård-Nielsen joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2000.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7128
published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6782
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5593
published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5458
Rikke Ibsen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4587
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 872-880
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3813
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 519–527
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3073
published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 430–447
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2329
published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2007, 32 (2-3), 65-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2132
published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 84-86
