Astrid Kunze

I am a Professor of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, Norway. My research interests are in the fields of labour economics, micro-econometric methods and register data.

Topics I am currently working on include:

– How organisations build human capital

– How family policy affects women’s careers and the gender gap

– Understanding whether family policy has changed firms’ production and the use of the input factor labour

– Corporate boards and labour power

During the academic year 2022/2023, I was on sabbatical leave, and I visited the University of California Santa Barbara (2022) and the Stone Centre at University College London (2023).

In 2020, I received a 6-year grant from the Norwegian Research Council for my project “Challenges to shaping an inclusive work-life in rapidly changing labour markets: Firms, Human capital, and Family policy”.

In 2022, I was awarded the Inaugural European Economics Association Teaching Award (Senior) for exceptional teaching. The jury consisted of two EEA Council Members and the Education Committee.

Link here: Education Committee

I am an Associate Editor of the European Economic Review.

I was a Guest Editor of the special conference issue in Labour Economics of EALE 2024.