Curriculum Vitae BERNT M. BRATSBERG EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, March 1991. M.A., Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, June 1987. Cand. Mag., Computer Science, University of Bergen, June 1984. EXPERIENCE Senior Research Fellow, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, 2001-present. Adjunct Professor, ESOP Centre, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 2007-present. Professor of Economics, Kansas State University, 1991-present. (Assistant Professor 1991-1996; Associate Professor 1996-2001; Professor 2001-2002; Adjunct Professor 2002-present.) Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics, Mikkeli, Spring 2005; Fall 2006; 2007. Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2007. Consultant, World Bank, 2005-2006. Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research, 2000-2001. Scientific Advisor, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, 1999-2001. Visiting Scholar, University of Oslo, 1999-2000. Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990-1991. Teaching Associate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987-1988 and 1989-1990. Research Assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1988-1989. PUBLICATIONS (REFEREED JOURNALS) Bratsberg, Bernt, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Markus Jäntti, Tor Eriksson, and Eva Österbacka, Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons, The Economic Journal 117(519), March 2007: C72-92. Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Who Pays for Performance? International Journal of Manpower, forthcoming. (Also appears as IZA Discussion Paper No. 2142, May 2006.) Björklund, Anders, Bernt Bratsberg, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Interindustry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries, Industrial Relations 46(1), January 2007: 171-202. Bratsberg, Bernt, Erling Barth, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Local Unemployment and the Relative Wages of Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Surveys, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(2), May 2006: 243-263. Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Identifying Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants under Changing Macroeconomic Conditions, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106(1), March 2004: 1-22.
Bernt M. Bratsberg Page 2 Bratsberg, Bernt, James F. Ragan, Jr., and John T. Warren, Negative Returns to Seniority: New Evidence in Academic Markets, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 56(2), January 2003: 306-323. Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, Jr., Changes in the Union Wage Premium by Industry, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 56(1), October 2002: 65-83. Bratsberg, Bernt, James F. Ragan, Jr., and Zaffar M. Nasir, The Effect of Naturalization on Wage Growth: A Panel Study of Young Male Immigrants, Journal of Labor Economics 20(3), July 2002: 568-597. Bratsberg, Bernt, and Dek Terrell, School Quality and Returns to Education of U.S. Immigrants, Economic Inquiry 40(2), April 2002: 177-198. Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, Jr., The Impact of Host-Country Schooling on Earnings A Study of Male Immigrants in the United States, Journal of Human Resources 37(1), Winter 2002: 63-105. Ragan, James F., Jr., and Bernt Bratsberg, Un-COLA: Why Have Cost-of-Living Clauses Disappeared from Union Contracts and Will They Return? Southern Economic Journal 67(2), October 2000: 304-324. Ragan, James F., Jr., John T. Warren, and Bernt Bratsberg, How Similar Are Pay Structures in Similar Departments of Economics? Economics of Education Review 18(3), June 1999: 347-360. Bratsberg, Bernt, and Dek Terrell, Experience, Tenure, and Wage Growth of Young Black and White Men, Journal of Human Resources 33(3), Summer 1998: 658-682. Babcock, Michael W., and Bernt Bratsberg, Measurement of Economic Impacts of Highway and Bridge Construction, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum 37(2), June 1998: 52-66. Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, Jr., Have Unions Impeded Growing Wage Dispersion Among Young Workers? Journal of Labor Research XVIII(4), Fall 1997: 593-612. Burki, Abid, Mushtaq Khan, and Bernt Bratsberg, Parametric Tests of Allocative Efficiency in the Manufacturing Sectors of India and Pakistan, Applied Economics 29(1), January 1997: 11-22. Bratsberg, Bernt, and Dek Terrell, Where Do Americans Live Abroad? International Migration Review 30(3), Fall 1996: 788-802. Bratsberg, Bernt, and Jarkko Turunen, Wage Curve Evidence from Panel Data, Economics Letters 51(3), June 1996: 345-362. Borjas, George J., and Bernt Bratsberg, Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born, The Review of Economics and Statistics 78(1), February 1996: 165-176. (Also appears as Working Paper No. 4913, National Bureau of Economic Research, November 1994. Reprinted in The Economics of Migration, Klaus F. Zimmerman and Thomas K. Bauer, Eds., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000.) Bratsberg, Bernt, The Incidence of Non-Return Among Foreign Students in the United States, Economics of Education Review 14(4), November 1995: 373-384. Ragan, James F., Jr., and Bernt Bratsberg, Earnings Inequality Narrows for Young Workers Despite a Widening Wage Structure, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 35(4), Fall 1995: 387-395. Bratsberg, Bernt, Legal versus Illegal U.S. Immigration and Source Country Characteristics, Southern Economic Journal 61(3), January 1995: 715-727.
Bernt M. Bratsberg Page 3 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Kjetil Sørlie, Foreign-born Migration to and from Norway, in Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Economic Development, & Policy, New York: World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Knut Røed, Opp og ned: Yrkesaktivitet og trygd over livsløpet for tidlige arbeidsinnvandrere i Norge (Up and down: Employment and welfare participation over the lifecycle among early labor immigrants in Norway), Integreringskart 2007, Oslo: Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet (in Norwegian). Bratsberg, Bernt, Torbjørn Hægeland, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Lese- og tallforståelse, utdanning og arbeidsmarkedssuksess (Reading- and numeracy skills, education, and labor market success), Universitetet i Stavanger: Lesesenteret, 2006 (in Norwegian). Bratsberg, Bernt, Hege Marie Edvardsen, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Kjetil Sørlie, Utflytting blant innvandrere i Norge (Out-migration among Immigrants in Norway), Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet 22(2), 2005: 181-192 (in Norwegian). Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Nye avlønningsformer (New Forms of Compensation). In H. Torp (ed.), Nytt arbeidsliv: Medvirkning, inkludering og belønning, Gyldendal, Oslo, 2005: 55-73 (in Norwegian). Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Større lønnsforskjeller i Norge: En følge av prestasjonslønn? (Growing Wage Inequality in Norway: The Consequence of Performance-Related Pay?) In H. Torp (ed.), Nytt arbeidsliv: Medvirkning, inkludering og belønning, Gyldendal, Oslo, 2005: 211-228 (in Norwegian). Røed, Marianne, and Bernt Bratsberg, Integrering av innvandrere i arbeidsmarkedet (Labor Market Integration of Immigrants). In P. Schøne (ed.), Det nye arbeidsmarkedet: Kunnskapsstatus og problemstillinger, Norwegian Research Council, Oslo, 2005: 29-48 (in Norwegian). Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Mulighetenes land? Inntektsprofiler for innvandrere til Norge og USA (Land of Opportunity? Comparing Earnings Profiles of Immigrants in Norway and the United States), Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 45(4), 2004: 637-658 (in Norwegian). Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Inntektsutvikling for innvandrere (Earnings Progress of Immigrants), Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet 19(2), 2002: 133-144 (in Norwegian). Bratsberg, Bernt, Oppsummeringsrapport Forskningsprogrammet Sysselsetting og Arbeidsmarked, 1997-2001 (S ummary Report Research Program on Employment and Labor Markets, 1997-2001). Report Prepared for the Norwegian Research Council, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, October 2002 (in Norwegian). Gibbons, Jacque E., Bernt Bratsberg, and Leonard E. Bloomquist, Kansas Standard of Need and Self-Sufficiency Study, 1999, Kansas Business Review 23(3), Spring 2000: 10-21. Bratsberg, Bernt, Labor Market Assimilation of Immigrants in Norway. Report Prepared for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, August 2000. Gibbons, Jacque E., Bernt Bratsberg, and Leonard E. Bloomquist, Kansas Standard of Need and Self-Sufficiency Study, 1999: Final Report. Report Prepared for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Kansas State University: Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, January 2000. Fullagar, Clive, Leonard Bloomquist, Bernt Bratsberg, Ronald Downey, Jenean Flanagan, Leah Pickett, James Shanteau, Kelly Smalley, and Laura Walker, Community Service Provider
Bernt M. Bratsberg Page 4 Direct Care Staff Turnover Study. Report Prepared for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Kansas State University: Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, March 1998. Bratsberg, Bernt, and James F. Ragan, Jr., Ohio Desert Storm Project: Report on Employment Experience. Report Prepared for Center for the Study of Veterans in Society, Kansas State University: Department of Economics, August 1997. Babcock, Michael W., and Bernt Bratsberg, Economic Impacts of the Kansas Comprehensive Highway Program. Report Prepared for Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas State University: Department of Economics, June 1997. Borjas, George J., and Bernt Bratsberg, Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born, Abstract Published in Journal of Economic Literature 34(4), December 1996: 2305. Gibbons, Jacque E., Bernt Bratsberg, Leonard E. Bloomquist, Betsy Cauble, Ann Coulson, and James Shanteau, Proposed Standard of Need for the State of Kansas. Report Prepared for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Kansas State University: Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, April 1996. Bratsberg, Bernt, Legal versus Illegal U.S. Immigration and Source Country Characteristics, Abstract Published in Journal of Economic Literature 34(1), March 1996: 542. Bratsberg, Bernt, Return Migration and Self-Selection: The Exodus of Foreign-Born from the United States, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991. Advisor: George J. Borjas. WORKING PAPERS Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Performance pay and within-firm wage inequality, ESOP Centre, University of Oslo, August 2007. Paper presented at the Oslo Workshop on Employer Surveys, January 2006. Institute for Social Research, Oslo. Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, and Robin Naylor, Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries, Frisch Centre, August 2007, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3037, September 2007. Revised and resubmitted for publication. Bratsberg, Bernt, James F. Ragan, Jr., and John T. Warren, Mobility, Pay, and Research Productivity of Economics Faculty A Longitudinal Analysis, Kansas State University, July 2007. Submitted for publication. Brinch, Christian, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, The Effects of an Upper Secondary Education Reform on the Attainment of Immigrant Youth, Frisch Centre, June 2007. Submitted for publication. Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Knut Røed, When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State, Frisch Centre, May 2007, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2872, June 2007. Submitted for publication. Eriksson, Tor, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Earnings Persistence across Generations: Transmission through Health? Frisch Centre, December 2005. Memorandum No. 35/2005, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. Submitted for publication. Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Kjetil Sørlie, Who Leaves, and Where? Patterns of Repeat and Return Migration among Immigrants in Norway, Frisch Centre, June 2006.
Bernt M. Bratsberg Page 5 Jäntti, Markus, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Oddbjørn Raaum, Robin Naylor, Eva Österbacka, Anders Björklund and Tor Eriksson, American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Åbo Akademi University, December 2005. Memorandum No. 34/2005, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1938, January 2006. Bratsberg, Bernt, Oddbjørn Raaum, and Knut Røed, Lifecycle Employment and Earnings of Labor Migrants to Norway, Frisch Centre, March 2003. Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Local Unemployment and the Wages of Immigrants: Evidence from the Current Population Surveys, Memorandum No. 20/2002, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway. Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Local Unemployment and the Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants in Norway, Memorandum No. 19/2002, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway. Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, Robin A. Naylor, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Explaining Variations in Wage Curves: Theory and Evidence, Memorandum No. 03/2002, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway. Barth, Erling, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjørn Raaum, Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants under Changing Macroeconomic Conditions: Evidence from Norway and the United States, Frisch Centre, October 2000. Bratsberg, Bernt, James F. Ragan, Jr., and Zaffar M. Nasir, The Effect of Naturalization on Wage Growth: A Panel Study of Young Immigrants, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, August 1998. Bratsberg, Bernt, The Effect of Immigration on Domestic Wages: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, Kansas State University, June 1996. Bratsberg, Bernt, Tests of the Wage Curve versus the Phillips Curve: Further Evidence, November 1995. Submitted for publication; revise and resubmit. Bratsberg, Bernt, and Dek Terrell, U.S. Immigrants Returns to Education and Quality of Schooling, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, February 1995. Bratsberg, Bernt, Estimating Outmigration Among Legal Immigrants in the United States, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, February 1994. Bratsberg, Bernt, International Businessmen and Foreign Capital Investments in the United States, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, February 1993. Bratsberg, Bernt, Longitudinal Evidence on the Effects of Immigration on Earnings and Mobility of Native Workers, in progress. August 2007