Helena Skyt Nielsen

Research Fellow

Aarhus University

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Helena Skyt Nielsen is a professor at Aarhus University since 2007. She was previously employed as an assistant (1998-2002) and then associate professor (2002-2007) at Aarhus University. Helena Skyt Nielsen received her PhD in Economics from the University of Aarhus in 1999 for the thesis "Human Capital Investment in Zambia". Her contributions are published in Economic Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, International Economic Review and other journals.

Her main area of interest is labour economics with a focus on economics of education and economics of gender and the family.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2271
Educational Homogamy: Preferences or Opportunities?
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 1066-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1962
The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
Charlotte Christiansen, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Helena Skyt Nielsen
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986
IZA Discussion Paper No. 963
Compensating Wage Differentials for Schooling Risk in Denmark
Luis Diaz-Serrano, Joop Hartog, Helena Skyt Nielsen
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110(4), 711-731
IZA Discussion Paper No. 365
Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith, Leif Husted
published in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (4), 855-885
IZA Discussion Paper No. 296
Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith, Leif Husted
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 755-786
IZA Discussion Paper No. 101
Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark
Leif Husted, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2001, 22 (1/2), 39-68
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