The Labour Research Group at the School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus, is carrying out research in applied and theoretical labour market theory.
Professor Dale T. Mortensen, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, was appointed Niels Bohr Visiting Professor for the period 2006-2010 and has been appointed Visiting Professor at Aarhus University for the period 2011-2015 associated with the FSE Research Unit CAP.

Currently, the following research fields are defined:

• Productivity Differences, Firm Evolution, and Growth
• Productivity Dispersion, Worker Flows, and Aggregate TFP
• Firm Heterogeneity, Earnings Differences, and Job Mobility
  
• International Trade and Growth
  
• The Family, labour supply, and  the labour market Performance and Policy

using large merged firm-worker micro data sets covering the period 1980-2008.

Visiting the Labour Research Group

If you are interested in these data and the overall research programme, you are welcome to visit the Labour Research Group for seminars or shorter visits.

Next conferences

'Economic Decisions related to Search and Matching', Aarhus University, September 24-26, 2010 -More information

'Matched Employer-Employee Data: Developments since AKM', Sandbjerg, October 7-10, 2010. - More information