Meandering Through Labour Economics Mental Well-being, Misperceptions, and Milieu in the Labour Market
PhD defence by Asker Nygaard Christensen
Assessment Committee
Associate Professor Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
Professor Michele Belot, Cornell University
Professor Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University
Supervisors
Associate Professor Nikolaj Arpe Harmon
Assistant Professor Daphné Jocelyne Skandalis
Department
Department of Economics
Place
Building: 26, Room: 26-2-21 (Store seminarrum 2. sal), Øster Farimagsgade 5 (Indgang via Gammeltoftsgade 17), 1353 København
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Short description of the thesis
The three chapters of this thesis are self-contained and explore different facets of what is---at the time of writing---the primary driver of our economy: human labour. They explore how doing labour affects the labourers; how labourers search for jobs that will remunerate them for their labour; and finally, how that search is affected by the labourers' family background.
The first chapter asks whether globalisation carries a gender-biased cost for workers' mental well-being that falls unevenly on women.
The second chapter turns to information and asks whether early career workers know the labour market they are entering, particularly the relative pay of their possible career choices.
The third chapter looks at how family background affects job search, asking why many workers end up in the same line of work as their parents.