Title: Head of Department
Phone: +47 55 58 92 03
Cellphone: +47 915 61 753 SMS
E-mail: Espen.Bratberg@econ.uib.no
Visiting address: Fosswinckelsgate 14
- Social Insurance
- Labour Economics
- Microeconometrics
- 1996 Dr polit (PhD), University of Bergen
- 2004 Professor of Economics, University of Bergen
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Gender differences in disability after sickness absence with musculoskeletal disorders. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 12 (37), 2011, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/12/37. (With Sturla Gjesdal and John G Mæland)
Has job stability decreased? Population data from a small open economy. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112 (1), 163-183, 2010. (With Kjell G Salvanes and Kjell Vaage)
Musculoskeletal impairments in the Norwegian working population: the prognostic role of diagnoses and socioeconomic status. A prospective study of sickness absence and transition to disability pension. Spine, 34(14), 2009, 1519-1525. (With Sturla Gjesdal and John G Mæland.)
Sickness absence with psychiatric diagnoses: Individual and contextual predictors of permanent disability. Health and Place, 15(1), 2009, 308-314. (With Sturla Gjesdal and John G Mæland.)
Job losses and child outcomes. Labour Economics, 15, 2008, 591-603. (With Øivind A Nilsen and Kjell Vaage.)
Income effects of divorce in families with dependent children. Journal of Population Economics, 21(2), 2008, 439-461. (With Sigve Tjøtta)
Trends in intergenerational mobility across offspring's earnings distribution in Norway. Industrial Relations, 46(1), 2007, 112-129. (With Øivind A. Nilsen and Kjell Vaage.)
Do voluntary international environmental agreements work? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(3), 2005, 583-597. (With Sigve Tjøtta and Torgeir Øines.)
Intergenerational earnings mobility in Norway: Levels and trends. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 107(3), 2005, 419-435. (With Øivind A. Nilsen and Kjell Vaage.)
Unemployment, labor force composition and sickness absence: A panel data study. Health Economics, 14(11), 2005, 1087-1101. (With Jan Erik Askildsen and Øivind Anti Nilsen.)
A panel data study of physicians' labor supply: The case of Norway. Health Economics, 14 (10), 2005, 1035-1045. (With Badi H. Baltagi and Tor Helge Holmås.)
Assessing the effects of an early retirement program. Journal of Population Economics, 17(3), 2004, 387 - 408. (With Tor Helge Holmås and Øystein Thøgersen.)
Diagnosis and duration in sick-absence as predictors for disability pension. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 31(3), 2003, 246-254. (With Sturla Gjesdal.)
The role of gender in long-term sickness absence and transition to permanent disability benefits. Results from a multiregister based, prospective study in Norway 1990-1995. European Journal of Public Health, 12(3), 2002, 180-186. (With Sturla Gjesdal.)
'The double burden' - Do combinations of career and family obligations increase sickness absence among women? European Sociological Review, 18(2), 2002, 233-249. (With Svenn-Åge Dahl and Alf Erling Risa.)
Evaluating social policy by experimental and nonexperimental methods. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 104 (1), 147-171, 2002. (With Astrid Grasdal and Alf Erling Risa.)
Transitions from school to work: Search time and job duration. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 62, 2000, 909-929. (With Øivind Anti Nilsen.)
Spell durations with long unemployment insurance periods. Labour Economics, 7 (2), 153-180, 2000. (With Kjell Vaage.)
Disability retirement in a welfare state. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 101(1), 1999, 97-114.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Intergenerational correlation in disability benefits receipt (with Øivind A Nilsen and Kjell Vaage). Dept of Economics Working Paper 07-2012
Worried sick? Worker responses to organizational turmoil (with Karin Monstad). Dept of Economics Working Paper 08-2012
Variation in sickness absenteeism between the primary school teachers in Norway: A panel data multilevel analysis (with Tor Helge Holmås, Kamrul Islam and Kjell Vaage). Dept of Economics Working Paper 01-2010
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Divorce (with Karsten Rieck and Kjell Vaage). Dept of Economics Working Paper 09-2011
Does paternity leave affect mothers’ sickness absence? (with Ghazala Naz)
Timing of high school tracking and high school dropout (with Kjell G Salvanes and Kjell Vaage)