- E-mailgeorg.picot@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 26 96
- Visitor AddressChristies gate 155007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 Bergen
I am Professor in Comparative Politics, with a specialization in comparative welfare state research and comparative political economy. My most recent research interest regards how states influence wage-setting and the wage distribution, in particular with respect to low-wage employment. For research on this topic I have been awarded a FRIHUMSAM Young Research Talents Grant by the Research Council of Norway. My other research interests are labour market policy, non-standard employment, immigration, globalization, and political parties. I founded and co-convene an interdisciplinary seminar series in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Bergen. In 2016, I received the prize for the best publication at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen (for Hooijer and Picot, 2015). I obtained my PhD in Political Science from the University of Milan. Afterwards, I worked at the University of Heidelberg, University of Oxford, and University of Manchester, before coming to Bergen.
- (2023). Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes. Socio-Economic Review.
- (2021). Platform work in a Coordinated Market Economy. Industrial relations journal. 348-363.
- (2019). Three approaches to labor-market vulnerability and political preferences. Political Science Research and Methods. 356-361.
- (2017). Political parties and non-standard employment: An analysis of France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Socio-Economic Review. 899-919.
- (2017). All of one kind? Labour market reforms under austerity in Italy and Spain. Socio-Economic Review. 461-482.
- (2016). Globalization and healthcare policy: A constraint on growing expenditures. Journal of European Public Policy. 197-216.
- (2015). European welfare states and migrant poverty: The institutional determinants of disadvantage . Comparative Political Studies. 1879-1904.
- (2014). 对政党政治与福利国家关系的再思考——近期文献述评 [Rethinking party politics and the welfare state: Recent advances in the literature; Chinese translation of Häusermann et al. 2013]. Foreign Theoretical Trends. 23-34.
- (2014). Party systems and social policy: A historical comparison of Italy and Germany. West European Politics. 138-158.
- (2013). The party preferences of atypical workers in Germany. Journal of European Social Policy. 164-178.
- (2011). Die sozialpolitischen Präferenzen der Mittelschicht: Antriebskraft oder Bremse? Sozialer Fortschritt. 289-295.
- (2009). Party competition and reforms of unemployment benefits in Germany: How a small change in electoral demand can make a big difference. German Politics. 155-179.
- (2023). Regulation of low-wage work in Norway.
- (2022). Misvisende om minstelønn. Klassekampen.
- (2012). Politics of Segmentation: Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe.
- (2023). Slik kan stater håndtere lavlønnsarbeid. Frifagbevegelse LO Media.
- (2023). Slik kan stater håndtere lavlønnsarbeid. Agenda Magasin.
- (2022). Een wettelijkminimumloon? Sociaaloverleg werkt beter.
- (2022). Political and institutional limits to the rise of platform work. 18 pages.
- (2021). Cross-national variation in growth models: Three sources of extra demand . 26 pages.
- (2015). Politics in a Transformed Labor Market: Renzi’s Labor Market Reform. 20 pages.
- (2015). Politica e riforme del mercato del lavoro. Il Jobs Act di Renzi. 21 pages.
- (2014). Labour market policies and party preferences of fixed-term workers. 19 pages.
- (2001). 'Welfare to Work' bei Blair und Schröder – eine Idee, zwei Realitäten? 36 pages.
- (2013). Rethinking party politics and the welfare state: Recent advances in the literature. British Journal of Political Science. 221-240.
- (2018). Zwischen den Orten: Aufbrechen, Ankommen und der Universitätsbetrieb. 140-144.
- (2017). EU-Kritik und historische Unvernunft. 155-170.
- (2015). Fremdheit und Bürokratie. 100-113.
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