Oddbjorn Raaum

Oddbjorn Raaum is a Research Professor at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, University of Oslo. His work spans labor economics, education, and social policy, with a focus on inequality, mobility, and policy impacts.

• Intergenerational earnings mobility
• Immigrant labor market integration
• Education resource allocation
• Wage inequality and tax policy
• Electric vehicle adoption
• Social gradients in pandemic outcomes

His research employs large-scale administrative data and causal inference methods to evaluate policies in education, taxation, and social welfare. Recent work includes analyzing the social gradients in employment during the COVID-19 pandemic and Misreporting in business support schemes.

Key collaborative networks include the Ragnar Frisch Centre and partnerships with institutions across Nordic countries, the UK, and the US. His publications emphasize empirical rigor and policy relevance in labor and public economics.