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

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