Peder J. Pedersen (decd)

Research Fellow

Aarhus University

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We are deeply sorry that Peder J. Pedersen passed away in July 2022 at age 81.

He studied economics at the University of Copenhagen and graduated with a MSc(econ) in 1970. In 1984 he received the Dr.oecon. degree from the University of Aarhus. From 1970 to 1974 he was assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School, and from 1974 to 1983 he was associate professor at University of Aarhus. From 1983 to 1991 he was working as professor of economics at Aarhus Business School. In 1991 he entered a position as professor at University of Aarhus. He participated in a number of international scientific networks. His research interests were focused on Incentives and the Labour Market, Income Distribution and Poverty,International Mobility and Pension and Retirement issues. He was a member of the Danish Council of Economic Advisers from 1985 to 1991 and served on a number of government commissions on labor market issues and social policy. From 2012 he was professor emeritus at the Economics Department in Aarhus and acted as part-time research professor at SFI-The Danish National Centre for Social Research in Copenhagen.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 1999.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4232
Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Taryn Ann Galloway, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder J. Pedersen, Torun Österberg
revised version published in: Thesia I Garner and Kathleen S Short (eds.): Measures of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, 23), 2015, 185 - 219
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1716
What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Christian Bjørnskov, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Peder J. Pedersen
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2008, 9 (2), 317-330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1575
Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000
Mona Larsen, Peder J. Pedersen
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29(5), 384-409
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1551
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
Kræn Blume Jensen, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder J. Pedersen, Mette Verner
published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2007, 33 (3), 373-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1104
Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000
Peder J. Pedersen, Mariola Pytlikova, Nina Smith
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1160-1186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 274
Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Disincentives Matter?
Peder J. Pedersen, Nina Smith
published in: European Sociological Review, 2002, 18 (3), 271-288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 165
Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience
Peder J. Pedersen
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
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