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Bernt Bratsberg

Bernt Bratsberg

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
32
Citations
9073
World Ranking
3364
National Ranking
27

Overview

Bernt Bratsberg is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research predominantly lies within the broad scope of Social Sciences, encompassing a variety of specialized subfields such as General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Gender Studies, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientific work of Bernt Bratsberg spans several main topics, including Employment and Welfare Studies, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

Bratsberg's recent papers illustrate a diverse research portfolio. These include:

  • How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration, 2020, American Journal of Political Science
  • Trajectories of occupational physical activity and risk of later-life mild cognitive impairment and dementia: the HUNT4 70+ study, 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Trajectories of Occupational Cognitive Demands and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Later Life, 2024, Neurology
  • Marital Histories and Associations With Later-Life Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment Risk in the HUNT4 70+ Study in Norway, 2022, Journal of Aging and Health
  • Correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment weakens over birth cohorts, 2023, Scientific Reports

Collaborative work features frequent coauthors such as Vegard Skirbekk, Ole Røgeberg, Asta K. Håberg, Bo Engdahl, and Yaakov Stern, reflecting multidisciplinary and cross-institutional engagement.

Publications appear repeatedly in several academic venues, including the SSRN Electronic Journal, BMC Public Health, Labour Economics, Søkelys på arbeidslivet, and Twin Research and Human Genetics.

In addition to research articles, Bernt Bratsberg has contributed to book literature, notably a publication titled Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, published by Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born

    George J. Borjas;Bernt Bratsberg

  • American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

    Markus Jantti;Bernt Bratsberg;Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Roed;Oddbjorn Raaum

  • The Effect of Naturalization on Wage Growth— A Panel Study of Young Male Immigrants

    Bernt Bratsberg;James F. Ragan;Zafar M. Nasir

  • The Impact of Host-Country Schooling on Earnings. A Study of Male Immigrants in the United States.

    Bernt Bratsberg;James F. Ragan

  • Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons

    Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum;Robin Naylor

  • Immigrants, Labour Market Performance and Social Insurance

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • Identifying Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants under Changing Macroeconomic Conditions

    Erling Barth;Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • School Quality and Returns to Education of U.S. Immigrants.

    Bernt Bratsberg;Dek Terrell

  • Immigration and Wages: Evidence from Construction*

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • Immigrant Labor Market Integration across Admission Classes

    Bernt Bratsberg;Oddbjørn Raaum;Knut Røed

  • Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons

    Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum;Robin Naylor

  • Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries

    Oddbjørn Raaum;Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Eva Österbacka

  • The Incidence of Non-return among Foreign Students in the United States.

    Bernt Bratsberg

  • Local Unemployment and the Relative Wages of Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Surveys

    Bernt Bratsberg;Erling Barth;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • The First Weeks of the Coronavirus Crisis: Who Got Hit, When and Why? Evidence from Norway

    Annette Alstadsæter;Bernt Bratsberg;Gaute Eielsen;Wojciech Kopczuk

  • Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?

    Bernt Bratsberg;Elisabeth Fevang;Knut Røed

  • Changes in the Union Wage Premium by Industry

    Bernt Bratsberg;James F. Ragan

  • Experience, Tenure, and Wage Growth of Young Black and White Men

    Bernt Bratsberg;Dek Terrell

  • Who pays for performance

    Erling Barth;Bernt Bratsberg;Torbjørn Hægeland;Oddbjørn Raaum

  • American exceptionalism in a new light : a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

    Markus Jäntti;Bernt Bratsberg;Knut Røed;Oddbjørn Raaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Oddbjørn Raaum
Oddbjørn Raaum University of Oslo
Robin Naylor
Robin Naylor University of Warwick
Markus Jäntti
Markus Jäntti Stockholm University
Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Wojciech Kopczuk
Wojciech Kopczuk Columbia University
George J. Borjas
George J. Borjas Harvard University
Vegard Skirbekk
Vegard Skirbekk Columbia University
Michael Rosholm
Michael Rosholm Aarhus University
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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