Vincent VANDENBERGHE

Economist- Professor at UCL (BELGIUM) Affiliation- Details


Areas of specialisation :
 # APPLIED LABOUR ECONOMICS
    # FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AND LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS
    # APPLIED MICROECONOMETRICS

Event: Seminar on AGEING PRODUCTIVITY and LABOUR COSTS
 19 Feb 2010 12:50-13:50 Collège Dupriez d 144


Affiliation-Contact 

Economics Department  (ECON) 3, Place Montesquieu/B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve/ Belgium

Tel + (32) 10/47 41 41 Fax + (32) 10/47 39 45 vincent.vandenberghe@uclouvain.be

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WORK IN PROGRESS/WORKING PAPERS  
   
The Long-Term Effects of Recessions on Youth. Reviewing the Evidence (2010)

Using Firm-Level Data to Assess Gender Wage Discrimination in the Belgian Labour Market (2009) [with Daniel Borowczyk Martins]

Ageing Workforce, Productivity and Labour costs of Belgian Firms (2009) [with Fabio Waltenberg] 

Evaluation the "Threat" Effects of Grade Repetition (2009) [with Michèle Bélot]

Inter-regional educational discrepancies in Belgium. How to combat them? (2009) [Written for the Re-Bel initiative: Rethinking Belgium’s institutions within the European Context]

Grade retention and educational attainment. Exploiting the 2001 Reform by the French-Speaking Community of Belgium
and Synthetic Control Methods,
(2009),  IRES WP, No 2009-22, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [with Michèle Bélot]


How to Combat Low Educational Attainment in Belgium, (2009), Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [written for the Bank Degroof Foundation]

Who will suffer most for the economic downturn?, (2009), OECD and Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Paris and Louvain-la-Neuve

Declining demographics and youth relative wages, (2008), OECD and Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Paris and Louvain-la-Neuve

What drives youth unemployment? , (2008), OECD and ECON, UCL, Paris and Louvain-la-Neuve                                                                                                 

Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance across the EU. An empirical assessment using sibling data (2007) Case DP No 123, Case-Sticerd, LSE, London

Free Entry vs Admission Tests in Belgium. Reflecting on how they could compare in terms of (In)equity (2006)  

The Economics of  Implicit & Deferred Tuition Fees  , (2006) [with Debande, 0.]

The Low Employment Rate Conundrum. Can More Human Capital Help? (2005), Econ DP 2005-53

Is Free Higher Education an Implicit Loan?  An empirical assessment using Belgian, German an UK data, (2005), Econ DP 2005-31 [with Debande, 0.]

Financing Higher Education with Income-Contingent Loans (2005), Econ DP 2005-03 [with Debande, 0.]

Post-compulsory Education finance (some comments)  [2005]

RECENT ARTICLES

NEW!!!!
 Refinancing EU's Higher Education with Deferred and Income-Contingent Tuition Fees:An empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data  European Journal of Political Economy (2008), No 24 Page 364-386  (with Debande, 0.)

What does it take to achieve Equality of Opportunity? An Empirical Evaluation Based on Brazilian Data, Economics of Education Review (2007), No 26 Page 710-724 (with Walenberg. F.)

Deferred and Income-Contingent  Tuition Fees: an empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK dataEducation Economics, Vol. 15, No 4, Page 421-440 (2007) (with Debande, 0.)

Achievement Effectiveness and Efficiency.The role of Tracking, Grade Repetition and Inter-school SegregationApplied Economics Letters (2006), No 13, Page 685–693.

 Evaluating the effectiveness of private education across countries: a comparison of methods, Labour Economics (2004), No 11, pages 487-506.
(with Robin, S.)

Evaluating the Magnitude and the Stakes of Peer Effects analyzing Science and Math Achievement across OECD
?,  Applied Economics (2002), No 34, pages 1283-1290.

Leaving teaching in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium: a duration analysis, Education Economics (2000), Vol.8, No 3. Pages 221-239.




AFFILIATION-DETAILS

Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
Department: Economics (ECON)
Research unit: Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)
Other : EALE, EENEE


TEACHING-ENSEIGNEMENT

ECGE1125E (Seminaire 1° bac Economie Gestion, ESPO)


ECON2353 (Capital humain et politiques éducatives/Human Capital and Educational Policies, Maîtrise/Masters, ESL, ECON)


FOPA1304 (Economie de l'éducation, Faculté ouverte pour adultes- FOPA, PSP)




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