I am Professor in Comparative Politics, with a specialization in comparative welfare state research and comparative political economy. My most recent research interest regards how states influence wage-setting and the wage distribution, in particular with respect to low-wage employment. For research on this topic I was awarded a FRIHUMSAM Young Research Talents Grant by the Research Council of Norway. My wider research interests are labour market policy, industrial relations, political parties, and political theory. I founded and co-convene an interdisciplinary seminar series in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Bergen. In 2016, I received the prize for the best publication at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen (for Hooijer and Picot, 2015). I obtained my PhD in Political Science from the University of Milan. Afterwards, I worked at the University of Heidelberg, University of Oxford, and University of Manchester, before coming to Bergen. 

 

• SAMPOL216: Labour market policies in comparative perspective
• SAMPOL390: Contemporary debates in political economy

 

2023

• Siri Hansen Pedersen; Georg Johannes Picot (2023). Slik kan stater håndtere lavlønnsarbeid. (external link)
• Siri Hansen Pedersen; Georg Johannes Picot (2023). Regulating low wages: cross-national policy variation and outcomes. (external link)
• Trond Holmen Erlien; Georg Picot (2023). Regulation of low-wage work in Norway.. (external link)
• Siri Hansen Pedersen; Georg Johannes Picot (2023). Slik kan stater håndtere lavlønnsarbeid. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot (2023). Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law. (external link)

2019

• Georg Johannes Picot; Paul Marx (2019). Three approaches to labor-market vulnerability and political preferences. (external link)

2011

• Paul Marx; Georg Johannes Picot (2011). Die sozialpolitischen Präferenzen der Mittelschicht: Antriebskraft oder Bremse?. (external link)

2001

• Georg Johannes Picot; Josef Schmid (2001). 'Welfare to Work' bei Blair und Schröder – eine Idee, zwei Realitäten?. (external link)

2015

• Gerda Hooijer; Georg Johannes Picot (2015). European welfare states and migrant poverty: The institutional determinants of disadvantage. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot; Arianna Tassinari (2015). Politica e riforme del mercato del lavoro. Il Jobs Act di Renzi. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot (2015). Fremdheit und Bürokratie. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot; Arianna Tassinari (2015). Politics in a Transformed Labor Market: Renzi’s Labor Market Reform. (external link)

2024

• Georg Johannes Picot; Siri Hansen Pedersen (2024). What are governments doing about low-wage employment – and how successful is it?. (external link)
• Christian Schemmel; Georg Johannes Picot (2024). Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship. (external link)
• Michal Kozák; Georg Johannes Picot (2024). The politics of the minimum wage: Explaining introduction and levels. (external link)
• Michal Kozák; Georg Picot; Peter Starke (2024). Do minimum wages crowd out union density?. (external link)

2017

• Georg Johannes Picot; Arianna Tassinari (2017). All of one kind? Labour market reforms under austerity in Italy and Spain. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot; Irene Menéndez (2017). Political parties and non-standard employment: An analysis of France, Germany, Italy and Spain. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot (2017). EU-Kritik und historische Unvernunft. (external link)

2013

• Silja Häusermann; Georg Johannes Picot; Dominik Geering (2013). Rethinking party politics and the welfare state: Recent advances in the literature. (external link)
• Paul Marx; Georg Johannes Picot (2013). The party preferences of atypical workers in Germany. (external link)

2014

• Silja Häusermann; Georg Johannes Picot; Dominik Geering (2014). 对政党政治与福利国家关系的再思考——近期文献述评 [Rethinking party politics and the welfare state: Recent advances in the literature; Chinese translation of Häusermann et al. 2013]. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot (2014). Party systems and social policy: A historical comparison of Italy and Germany. (external link)
• Paul Marx; Georg Johannes Picot (2014). Labour market policies and party preferences of fixed-term workers. (external link)

2025

• Georg Picot (2025). Labour market policy in comparative political economy research. (external link)
• Trond Holmen Erlien; Georg Picot (2025). The Politics of Statutory Extensions of Collective Bargaining in Norway. (external link)

2022

• Georg Johannes Picot (2022). Misvisende om minstelønn. (external link)
• Cosette Molijn; Georg Picot (2022). Een wettelijkminimumloon? Sociaaloverleg werkt beter. (external link)
• Georg Picot (2022). Political and institutional limits to the rise of platform work. (external link)

2018

• Georg Johannes Picot (2018). Zwischen den Orten: Aufbrechen, Ankommen und der Universitätsbetrieb. (external link)

2009

• Georg Johannes Picot (2009). Party competition and reforms of unemployment benefits in Germany: How a small change in electoral demand can make a big difference. (external link)

2021

• Corinna Funke; Georg Johannes Picot (2021). Platform work in a Coordinated Market Economy. (external link)
• Georg Johannes Picot (2021). Cross-national variation in growth models: Three sources of extra demand. (external link)

2016

• Lukas Fervers; Philipp Oser; Georg Johannes Picot (2016). Globalization and healthcare policy: A constraint on growing expenditures. (external link)

2012

• Georg Johannes Picot (2012). Politics of Segmentation: Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Latest publications: 

Erlien, T. H. & Picot, G. (2025) The Politics of Statutory Extensions of Collective Bargaining in Norway. Scandinavian Political Studies, 48(4). 
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5074467 
 

Picot, G. (2025) Labour market policy in comparative political economy research, in Regini, M. (ed), Handbook of Comparative Political Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 253-266.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5320284 
 

• WAGEREG - Bringing in the state: The politics of wage regulation and low-wage employment
• CPE@UiB - Interdisciplinary seminars in Comparative Political Economy