Vandenberghe

		Vincent VANDENBERGHE Economist- Professor at UCL (BELGIUM) Affiliation- Details Areas of specialisation : # LABOUR ECONOMICS # FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AND LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS #HUMAN CAPTIAL # APPLIED ECONOMETRICS Download full CV Vincent Vandenberghe @ Ideas/Repec	Special Issue on “Ageing Workforces”, De Economist, 159(2)- 2011 Présidence ECON/ESL Bbc world RFE Other useful links

Areas of specialisation : # LABOUR ECONOMICS
# FIRM PRODUCTIVITY AND LABOUR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS
#HUMAN CAPTIAL
# APPLIED ECONOMETRICS

Special Issue on “Ageing Workforces”,
De Economist, 159(2)- 2011

Assessing Human Capital Theory using firm-level evidence. The Missing Link (2012), Mimeo, IRES, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

Ageing Workforces and the Productivity of Belgian Firms (2012), draft of the final report to BELSPO (Belgian Science Policy) [also available in French]

On using proxy variables to control for time-varying unobservables while accounting for time-constant firm heterogeneity (2011), Mimeo, IRES, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

Are firms willing to employ a greying and feminizing workforce? (2011), Mimeo, IRES, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

Ageing and Employability. Evidence from Belgian Firm-Level Data (2011), Mimeo, IRES, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [with M. Rigo & F. Waltenberg]

Some thoughts about mobility and income-contingent student loans (2011), Mimeo, IRES, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [discussed at the 10th Ethical Forum, Univ. Foundation, Nov. 2011, Brussels]

Industrial restructuring and the challenge of an ageing workforce (2011), Mimeo, IRES, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [presented at th 19th Congrès de Economistes Belges de Langue Française, Nov. 2011, Namur, => Power Point]

Evaluating the "Threat" Effects of Grade Repetition (2011), IRES WP, No 2011-26 [forthcoming in Education Economics] [with Michèle Bélot]

Firm-level Evidence on Gender Wage Discrimination in the Belgian Private Economy (2011), IRES WP, No 2011-16 [published in Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations]

Boosting the employment rate of older men and women. An empirical assessment using Belgian firm-level data on productivity and labour costs (2011), IRES WP, No 2011-11De Economist]

Shed the oldies...it's profitable. Older worker separations and firm performance in Belgium (2010), mimeo, IRES, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve

Using Firm-Level Data to Assess Gender Wage Discrimination in the Belgian Labour Market (2010) IRES WP, No 2010-7, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [with Daniel Borowczyk Martins]

Ageing Workforce, Productivity and Labour costs of Belgian Firms (2010), IRES WP, No 2010-3, Economics Schoool of Louvain, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve [with Fabio Waltenberg] ZEW-June 2010 PowerPoint

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]

Inter-regional educational discrepancies in Belgium. How to combat them? (2009), [written for the Rethinking Belgium initiative] + Power Point

How to Combat Low Educational Attainment in Belgium, (2009), [written for the Bank Degroof Foundation]

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

ARTICLES articles with abstracts

Does Current Parental Income Impact on the Decision to Attend Tertiary Education in Europe (2011), The European Journal of Education, forthcoming

Evaluating the "Threat" Effects of Grade Repetition (2011), Education Economics, forthcoming [with Bélot, M.]

Firm-level Evidence on Gender Wage Discrimination in the Belgian Private Economy (2011), Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 25(3), pp. 330-349

Introduction to Special Issue on “Ageing Workforces” (2011), De Economist, 159(2), pp. 89-94.

Boosting the employment rate of older men and women. An empirical assessment using Belgian firm-level data on productivity and labour costs (2011), De Economist, 159(2), pp. 159-191

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

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

Deferred and Income-Contingent Tuition Fees: an empirical assessment using Belgian , German and UK data (2007), Education Economics , Vol. 15(4), pp. 421-440 [with Debande, 0.]

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

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

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

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

Combining Market and Bureaucratic Control in Education: An Answer to Market and Bureaucratic Failure? (1999), Comparative Education, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 271-282

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Issues of Student Mobility in the EU (1996), European Journal of Education , Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 205-222 [with Ph. de Villé & F. Martou]