Professor


 
Education:
Position: Professor


Administrative Assistant: Margit Sommer
Mail: nsmith@econ.au.dk
Phone: +45 8942 1994
Cell Phone: +45 6170 1288
Office: Room 325, Building 1326
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Nina Smith is professor at the School of Economics and Management. She graduated from Aarhus University 1981 (MSc Economics). She has been professor at Aarhus School of Business and pro vice-chancellor at Aarhus University. Her primary research interest is labour economics, migration and education economics. She has been chairman of the board of the Danish Independent Research Councils, member of the Danish Social Science Research Council, and served as member or chairman of a number of boards of directors of national research institutes and private firms. She has been chairman of the Danish Economic Council and member of several government commissions and councils

Teaching Interests   
Research Interests

• Labour Supply and Taxation
• Family friendly policies and women’s career
• Intergenerational Mobility and educational attainment
• Integration of Immigrants into the Labour Market
• Allocation of time within the household
• Women in top management and firm performance
• Education economics and research policy

Selected Publications   

• N. Smith;  S. Dex, T. Callan  and J. D. Vlasblom, 2003, Taxation of Spouses: A Cross Country Study of the Effects on Married Women’s Labour Supply, Oxford Economic papers, 55(3), 417-439.
• A. Frederiksen, Graversen E.K. and N. Smith, 2005, Tax Evasion and Work in the Regular and Underground Sector, Labour Economics, 12(5), 613-628.
• N. Datta Gupta, R. Oaxaca and N. Smith 2006, Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women’s Relative Wage Progress in the United States and Denmark, Industrial and Labor Relations, 59 (2), 243-66.
• N. Gupta, N. Smith and L. Stratton, 2007, Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark, Southern Economic Journal, vol 74 (2), 412-433.
• P.J. Pedersen, M. Pytlikova and N. Smith, 2008, Selection and network effects – Migrations flows into OECD countries 1990-2000,  European Economic Review, 52 (7), 1160-86.
• H.S. Nielsen, N. Smith, and A, Celikaksoy, 2009, The effect of marriage on education of immigrants: Evidence from a policy reform restricting marriage migration, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 111(3), 457-486.