Jörgen Hansen

Research Fellow

Concordia University

Jorgen.Hansen@concordia.ca

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Jörgen Hansen is a Professor of Economics at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research interests include education, welfare, immigration, and labor supply. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1997. Prior to joining the faculty at Concordia, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Centre de recherche et développement en économique (C.R.D.E.), University of Montreal, and served as a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the University of Bonn. Jörgen Hansen also holds appointments as research fellow at IZA and research associate at CIRANO and CIREQ. His work has been published in journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and Empirical Economics.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15338

The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the US

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13564

The Bottom 20%: Early Career Paths of Adolescents with Low GPA

Jörgen Hansen, Nicolai Kristensen, Henrik Lindegaard Andersen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13356

Reconciling Changes in Wage Inequality with Changes in College Selectivity Using a Behavioral Model

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13279

The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 35 (7), 841-859

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10613

Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8 (3), 895-927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9258

New Evidence on Mobility and Wages of the Young and the Old

Jörgen Hansen, Damba Lkhagvasuren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7237

A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6724

The Timing of Earnings Sampling over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6339

Characterizing the Instrumental Variable Identifying Assumption as Sample Selection Conditions

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6167

Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5718

Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model

Jörgen Hansen, Xingfei Liu

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48 (5), 1831-54.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4835

The Distinction between Dictatorial and Incentive Policy Interventions and its Implication for IV Estimation

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4823

Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg, Sharif Faisal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3882

Estimating Complementarity between Education and Training

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen, Nicolai Kristensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3528

Calibration and IV Estimation of a Wage Outcome Equation in a Dynamic Environment

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2266

State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

Jörgen Hansen, Magnus Lofstrom, Xuelin Zhang

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 81-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2261

Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates

Jörgen Hansen, Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 412 - 442

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1585

A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the OLS-IV Puzzle

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 140 (2), 2007, 333-948

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1209

Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg

revised version published as 'Poverty and its Persistence: A Comparison of Natives and Immigrants in Sweden' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (2), 105-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 973

Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2003, 18 (6), 679-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 769

Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Lennart Flood, Jörgen Hansen, Roger Wahlberg

published in Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1008-1032

IZA Discussion Paper No. 513

Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Christian Belzil, Jörgen Hansen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 335-358