Astrid Kunze

E-mail:

Astrid.Kunze@nhh.no

Astrid Kunze

Telephone:

+ 47 55 95 97 54

Fax:

+ 47 55 95 95 43

Title:

Associate professor, PhD
University College London, 2000.

Nationality:

German
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching areas/Course Definitions:

Bachelor:

Applied Macroeconomics (VOA 023)

Master:

The composition of the workforce (STR 445), Personnel Economics (STR 435), Introduction to Econometrics (ECO 402)

PhD:

Econometrics (ESC 503), Labour Economics , Statistics

Teaching languages:

English, Norwegian

Research:

Applied Microeconometrics, Labour Economics, Public Finance
Other research interests: Applied Macroeconomics, Corporate Governance

Research in progress:
  • Are all the good men fathers? Wage dynamics around child birth, Nov. 2011.
  • Why are so few women on top ranks? (Previous title: Gender, children and career progression), May 2011.
  • Comparative advantage or discrimination? Studying differences in male-female labor market dynamics using displaced workers (joint with Ken R. Troske (University of Kentucky),  (revised version of NHH DP 25/07, March 2011.

Selected publications:
  • Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth (joint with Mette Ejrnæs, University of Copenhagen), forthcoming Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
  • Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search (joint with Ken R. Troske, University of Kentucky), Labour Economics, 19, 2012, 176-185.
  • 'High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population' (with Gil S. Epstein, Bar-Ilan University; Melanie Ward, ECB), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 56(3), July 2009.
  • 'Gender wage gap studies: Consistency and decomposition', Empirical Economics, 35, pp.63-76, 2008.
  • 'Vocational training and gender: wages and occupational mobility among young workers' (joint with Bernd Fitzenberger), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), pp.392-415.
  • 'The evolution of the gender wage gap', Labor Economics 2005,  12(1), pp.73-97.
  • 'The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy' (joint with Thomas Bauer),  Brussels Economic Review, 2004, 47(1), pp. 1-19.
  • 'Gender differences in entry wages and early career wages', Annales d’Economie et Statistique2003, 71/72,  pp.245-266.
  • 'Another look at instrumental variable estimation in the gender wage gap literature', Research in Labor Economics2001, 20, pp.373-93.

Other Academic Appointment::

 

 

Research fellow at IZA, Bonn (Germany)