Torben Tranæs
Research Director, Professor
Ph.D. (Econ.)
Research Fellow at CESifo and IZA.
Direct:+45 33 34 48 01
Email: tt@rff.dk
Research areas
Migration and integration of immigrants, undeclared work, unemployment insurance, active labor market policy, equality of opportunity, taxation and labor market performance and crime and the labor market.
Recent publications
"Vi der bor i Danmark. Hvem er vi? Og hvordan lever vi?" with Bent Jensen, Gyldendal, 2011.
"Trends in the Danish Immigration Multiplier" with Martin Junge and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, 2011.
"Paper til Nationaløkonomisk Forening: Kvalitativ integration - er vi på vej mod et etnisk opdelt samfund?" Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, 2010.
"Ægteskabsmønsteret for unge med indvandrerbaggrund: Konsekvenser af ændringen i udlændingeloven i 2000 og 2002", with Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen. Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, 2009.
Indvandrerne og det danske uddannelsessystem (red.) with contributions by Jørgen Goul Andersen, Camilla Hvidtfeldt, Bent Jensen, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen and Line Vikkelsø Slot. Gyldendal (2008).
Forbryderen og samfundet. Livsvilkår og uformel straf with Lars Pico Geerdsen (eds.). Gyldendal (2008).
PISA Etnisk 2005. Kompetencer hos danske og etniske elever i 4. klasse i Danmark 2005 with Niels Egelund (eds.). University Press of Southern Denmark (2007) (second edition 2008).
Employment Effects of Reducing Welfare to Refugees with Duy T. Huynh and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen. Rockwool Foundation Research Unit(2007).
En befolkning deler sig op? with Anna Piil Damm and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen. With commentaries by Rikke Hvilshøj, Henrik Sass Larsen and Svein Blom. Gyldendal (2006).
"Progressive Taxation and Wages: Micro Evidence" with Søren Arnberg and Anders Holm, in Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance, by Jonas Agell and Peter B. Sørensen (eds). Published by MIT Press (2006).
Introduction to Indvandringen til Europa. Velfærdsstat og Integration. Gyldendal (2005).
"Optimal Workfare with Voluntary and Involuntary Unemployment" with Claus Thustrup Kreiner. Published in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 107, No. 3, p 459 (September 2005).
"Job Search and Savings: Wealth Effects and Duration Dependence" with Rasmuz Lentz. Journal of Labor Economics. Vol. 23, No. 3, p. 467 (July 2005).
"Migrants, Work, and the Welfare State" with Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds). University Press of Southern Denmark (2004).
"To What Extent are we Equalizing Opportunities for Income Acquisition Among Citizens" with John E. Roemer et al. Journal of Public Economics 87 (3/4), 539-565 (2003).
Recent working papers
"Starthjælpens betydning for flygtninges levevilkår og beskæftigelse" with Lars Højsgaard Andersen, Hans Hansen and Marie Louise Schult-Nielsen, Rockwool Fondens Forskningsenhed og Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Arbejdspapir nr. 25, 2012.
"The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Youth Diligence and Law Obedience" with Peter Fallesen, Lars Pico Geerdsen and Susumu Imai. Rockwool Foundation Research Unit and University Press of Southern Denmark, Study Paper No. 41, 2012.
"The overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in criminal convictions" with Lars Højsgaard Andersen. Rockwool Foundation Research Unit (2011).
"Marriage, Wealth, and Unemployment Duration: A Gender Assymetry Puzzle" with Rasmus Lentz. IZA Discussion Paper No. 1607 (2005).
"Labour Market Programmes and the Equity-Efficiecy Trade-off" with Trine Filges, John Kennes, Birthe Larsen (April 2005).
"Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance" with Donald O. Parsons and Helene Bie Lilleør (May 2003).
