Publications

Forthcoming:

• Buyse, T., Heylen, F. and R. Van de Kerckhove, “Pension reform, employment by age, and long-run growth”, forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics.
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, "The relationship between formal education and skill acquisition in young workers’ first jobs" forthcoming in The Manchester School.
• Berger, T. and G. Everaert, "Is the Impact of Labour Taxes on Unemployment Asymmetric?" forthcoming in Macroeconomic Dynamics.
• Cockx, B. and M. Picchio, “Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?”, forthcoming in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
• Cockx, B., Dejemeppe, M. and B. Van der Linden “Évaluation d'une politique de contrôle de la recherche d'emploi. L'apport de l'économétrie structurelle”, Fortcoming in Revue Française d'Economie.
• Cockx, B., Göbel C. and S. Robin “Can Income Support for Part-Time Workers Serve as a Stepping Stone to Regular Jobs? An Application to Young Long-Term Unemployed Women”, forthcoming in Empirical Economics, Special Issue on the Estimation of Treatment Effects: Recent Developments and Applications.
  
• Demuynck, T. and D. Van de gaer, "Inequality adjusted income growth", forthcoming in Economica.
• Luttens, R.I. and M.-A. Valfort, "Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism", forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

2012:

• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, 2012, "Overeducation, undereducation and earnings: Further evidence on the importance of ability and measurement error bias ", Journal of Labor Research, 33(1), 76-90.43, 1333-1369.

2011:

• Jacquet, L. and D. Van de gaer, 2011, “A comparison of optimal tax policies when compensation or responsibility matter”, Journal of Public Economics, 95, 1248-1262.
• Berger, T., 2011 "Estimating Europe's Natural Rates", Empirical Economics, 40(2), 521-536.
• Berger, T. and F. Heylen, 2011, "Differences in hours worked in the OECD: institutions or fiscal policies?", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43, 1333-1369.
• Berger, T. and B. Kempa, 2011, "Bayesian Estimation of the Output Gap for a Small Open Economy: The Case of Canada", Economics Letters, 112(1), 107-112.
• Boulhol, H., Dobbelaere, S. and S. Maioli, 2011, “Imports as Product and Labour Market Discipline”, British Journal Of Industrial Relations , 49, 331-361.
• Cherchye, L., Demuynck, T. and B. De Rock, 2011, “Revealed Preference Analysis of Non-Cooperative Household Consumption”, Economic Journal, 121, 1073-1096. 
• Meeusen, W., Stavrevska, V. and G. Rayp, 2011, “Efficiency wages, unemployment benefits and union-firm wage bargaining: The issue of the choice of the outside option”, Journal of Labor Research, 32, 75-86.
• Picchio, M. and C. Mussida, 2011, “Gender wage gap: A semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction”, Labour Economics, 18, 564-578.
• Picchio, M. and J. C. van Ours, 2011, “Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training”, Labour Economics, 18, 712-722.
• Sys, C.,  Meersman, H. and E. Van de Voorde, 2011, “A non-structural test for competition in the container liner shipping industry”, Maritime Policy & Management, 38, 219-234.
• Schluter, C. and D. Van de gaer, 2011, “Upward structural mobility, exchange mobility, and subgroup consistent mobility measurement: US-German mobility rankings revisited”, Review of Income and Wealth, 57, 1-22.
• Schokkaert, E., Van Ootegem, L. and E. Verhofstadt, 2011, “Preferences and Subjective Satisfaction: Measuring Well-being on the Job for Policy Evaluation”, CESifo Economic Studies, 57, 683-714.
• Van Ootegem, L. and E. Verhofstadt, 2011, “Using Capabilities as an alternative indicator for Well-being”, Social Indicators Research, 1-20.

2010:

• Berger, T. and G. Everaert, 2010, "Labour Taxes and Unemployment: Evidence from a Panel Unobserved Component Model", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34(3), 354-364.
• Cockx, B. and B. Van der Linden, 2010, "Flexicurity in Belgium: A reform proposal based on economic principles", International Labour Review, 149(3), 361-372.
• Cockx, B., Robin, S. et C. Göbel, 2010, “Les effets sur l’emploi du complément de revenu au travail à temps partiel en Belgique: analyse économétrique sur un panel de jeunes chômeuses”, Revue Economique, 61, 299-312.
• Dossche, M., F. Heylen and D. Van den Poel, 2010, "The kinked demand curve and price rigidity. Evidence from scanner data", The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112(4), 723-752.
• Everaert, G., 2010, "Estimation and Inference in Time Series with Omitted I(1) Variables", Journal of Time Series Econometrics, Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 2.
• Luttens, R.I., 2010, "Minimal rights based solidarity", Social Choice and Welfare, 34(1), 47-64.
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, 2010, "The determinants of overeducation: different measures, different outcomes?", International Journal of Manpower, 31(6), 608-625
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, 2010, "The measurement and determinants of skill acquisition in young workers’ first job", Economic and Industrial Democracy, 31(1), 116-149.

2009:

• Benavente, J.M., S. Dobbelaere and J. Mairesse, 2009, "A Note on the Interaction between Product and Labour Market Power", Applied Economics Letters, 16(6), 573-577.
• Berger, T. and G. Everaert, 2009, "A replication note on unemployment in the OECD since the 1960s: What do we know?", Empirical Economics, 36(2), 479-485.
• Sys, C.,  Meersman, H. and E. Van de Voorde, 2011, “A non-structural test for competition in the container liner shipping industry”, Maritime Policy & Management, 38, 219-234.
• Demuynck T., 2009, "Absolute and relative time-consistent revealed preferences," Theory and Decision, 66, p.283-299
• Demuynck T. and Lauwers L., 2009, "Nash rationalization of collective choice over lotteries," Mathematical Social Sciences, 57, p.1-15
• Demuynck T., 2009, "A General Extension Result with Applications to Convexity, Homotheticity and Monotonicity," Mathematical Social Sciences, 57, p.96-109
• Dhont, T., and F. Heylen, 2009, "Employment and growth in Europe and the US: the role of fiscal policy composition", Oxford Economic Papers, 61, 538-565.
• Schollaert, A. and D. Van de gaer, 2009, "Natural resources and internal conflict", Environmental and Resource Economics, 44, 145-165.
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey,"Objective overeducation and worker well-being: a shadow price approach", Journal of Economic Psychology,, 30(3), 469-481.
• Verhofstadt, E. , H. De Witte and E. Omey, "Demand, control and its relationship with job mobility among young workers", Economic and Industrial Democracy, 30(2), 269-296.

2008:

• Sys C., G. Blauwens, E. Omey, E. Van De Voorde and F. Witlox, 2008, “In search of the link between ship size and operations”, Transportation Planning and Technology, (31)4, 435-463.
• Vanoverberghe J., D. Verhaest, E. Verhofstadt and E. Omey, 2008, “The transition from school to work in Flanders: a duration analysis”, Journal of Education and Work, 21(4), 317-331.
• Cornille, D. and M Dossche, 2008, "Some Evidence on the Adjustment of Producer Prices",The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110(3), 489–518,
• Peersman, G. and L. Pozzi, "Business Cycle Fluctuations and Excess Sensitivity of Private Consumption", Economica, 75(299), 514-523.
• Gobbin, N. and G. Rayp: "Different ways of looking at old issues: a time series approach to inequality and growth", Applied Economics, 40(7), 885-895.
• Dhont, T., and F. Heylen, 2008, "Why do Europeans work (much) less? It is taxes and government spending", Economic Inquiry, 46(2), 197-207.
• Vanoverberghe J., D. Verhaest, E. Verhofstadt and E. Omey, 2008, “The transition from school to work in Flanders: a duration analysis”, Journal of Education and Work, 21(4), 317-331.
• Berger, T. and G. Everaert, 2008, "Unemployment Persistence and the NAIRU: A Bayesian Approach", Scottisch Journal of Political Economy, 55(3), 282-299.
• Schollaert, A. and D. Van de gaer, 2008, "Boycotts, Power Politics, or Trust Building: How to Prevent Conflict?", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 164(2), 356-379.

2007:

• Pozzi, L. and G. Malengier, 2007, "Certainty equivalence and the excess sensitivity of private consumption", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 39(7), 1839-1848.
• Luttens, R.I. and E. Ooghe, 2007, "Is it fair to 'make work pay'?", Economica, 74, 599-626.
• Heylen, F., and L. Pozzi, 2007, "Crises and human capital accumulation", Canadian Journal of Economics, 40, p. 1261-1285.
• Gobbin, N., G. Rayp and D. Van de gaer, 2007, “Inequality and growth: from micro theory to macro empirics”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 508-530.
• De Witte H., E. Verhofstadt and E. Omey E., 2007, "Testing Karasek's learning and strain hypotheses on young workers in their first job", Work&Stress, 21(2), 131-141.
• Verhofstadt, E. , H. De Witte and E. Omey, 2007, "Higher educated workers: better jobs but less satisfied?", International Journal of Manpower, 28(2), 135-151.
• Rayp, G. and N. Van de Sijpe, 2007, "Measuring and Explaining Government Efficiency in Developing Countries", Journal of Development Studies, 43(2), 360-381.
• Everaert, G. and L. Pozzi, 2007, "Bootstrap Based Bias Correction for Dynamic Panels", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31, 1160-1184.
• O'Neill, D., O. Sweetman and D. Van de gaer, 2007, "The effects of measurement error and omitted variables when using transition matrices to measure intergenerational mobility", Journal of Economic Inequality, 5, 159-178.
• Luttens, R.I. and D. Van de gaer, 2007, "Lorenz dominance and non-welfaristic redistribution", Social Choice and Welfare, 28, 281-302.
• Ooghe, E., E. Schokkaert and D. Van de Gaer, 2007, "Equality of opportunity versus equality of opportunity sets", Social Choice and Welfare, 28, 209-230.

2006:

• Pozzi, L., 2006, "Ricardian Equivalence under Imperfect Information ", Journal of Public Economics, 90(10-11), 2009-2026.
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, 2006, "Discriminating between alternative measures of overeducation", Applied Economics, 38(18), 2113-2120.
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, 2006, "Measuring the incidence of over- and undereducation", Quality & Quantity, 40(5), 783-803.
• Verhaest, D and E. Omey, 2006, "The impact of overeducation and its measurement", Social Indicators Research, 77(3), 419-448.
• O’Neill, D., O. Sweetman and D. Van de gaer, 2006, “The impact of cognitive skills on the distribution of the black-white wage gap”, Labour Economics, 13, 343-356.
• Brock, E. and S. Dobbelaere, 2006, "Has International Trade affected Workers’ Bargaining Power ?", Review of World Economics - Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 142(2), 233-266.
• Dumont, M., G. Rayp and P. Willeme, 2006, "Does Internationalization Affect Union Bargaining Power ? An Empirical Study for Five EU Countries", Oxford Economic Papers, 58(1), 77-102.

2005:

• De Pelsmacker, P., L. Driesen and G. Rayp, “Do Consumers Care About Ethics ? Willingness-to-Pay for Fair-Trade Coffee”, Journal of Consumer Affairs, 39(2), 363-385.
• Dumont, M., G. Rayp, O. Thas and P. Willeme, 2005, “Correcting Standard Errors in Two-Stage Estimation Procedures with Generated Regressands”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 67(3).
• Cuyvers, L., M. Dumont, G. Rayp and K. Stevens, 2005, “Home Employment Effects of EU Firms’ Activities in Emerging Central and Eastern European Countries”, Open Economies Review, 16(2)

2004:

• Dobbelaere, S., 2004, "Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 22(10), 1381-1398.
• Dobbelaere, S., 2004, "Ownership, Firm Size and Rent Sharing in Bulgaria", Labour Economics, 11(2), 165-189.
• Everaert, G. and F. Heylen, 2004, “Public capital and long-run labour market performance in Belgium”, Journal of Policy Modeling, 26, 95-112.
• Pozzi, L., Heylen, F. and M. Dossche, 2004, "Government debt and the excess sensitivity of private consumption to current income: an empirical analysis for OECD countries", Economic Inquiry, 42, 618-633.
• Schokkaert, E., Van de gaer, D., Vandenbroucke, F. and Luttens, R.I., 2004, "Responsibility sensitive egalitarianism and optimal linear income taxation", Mathematical Social Sciences, 48(2), 151-182.

2003:

• Cuyvers L., Dumont M., Rayp G., Stevens K., 2003, “Wage and Employment Effects in the EU of International Trade with the Emerging Economies”, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 134(2).
• Cuyvers, L., M. Dumont and G. RaypP, 2003, “The Impact of International Trade with Asian Newly Industrialized Countries on Wages in the European Union”, Asian Economic Journal, 17 (4), 361-387.
• Dobbelaere, S., 2003, "Insider Power and Wage Determination in Bulgaria - An Econometric Investigation", International Journal of Manpower, Special Issue: Competitive versus Non-Competitive Wage Differentials, 24(4), 399-425.
• Everaert, G., 2003, “Balanced growth and public capital: an empirical analysis with I(2)-trends in capital stock data”, Economic Modelling, 20, 741-763.
• Pozzi, L., 2003, "The coefficient of relative risk aversion: a Monte Carlo study investigating small sample estimator problems" Economic Modelling, 20(5), 923-940.
• Pozzi, L., 2003, "Tax discounting in a high debt economy" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 65(3), 261-282.
• van Aarle, B., H. Garretsen and N. Gobbin, "Monetary and fiscal policy transmission in the Euro-area: evidence from a structural VAR analysis", Journal of Economics and Business, 55, 609-638.
• Verhaest, D. and E. Omey, 2003, "Overeducation in the transition from school to work: The case of Flanders", The Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences, 39(3), 202-226.
  

2001:

• Crisologo-Mendoza, L. and D. Van de gaer, 2001, “Population Growth and Customary Land Law: the Case of Cordillera Villages in the Philippines”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 49, 631-658
• Everaert, G., 2001, “Infrequent Large Shocks to Unemployment: New Evidence on Alternative Persistence Perspectives”, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 15, 555-577.
• Everaert, G. and F. Heylen, 2001, “Public Capital and Productivity Growth in Belgium,” Economic Modelling, 18, 97-116.
• Gobbin, N. and B. van Aarle, 2001, “Fiscal adjustments and their effects during the transition to the EMU”, Public Choice, 109.
• Van de gaer, D., Schokkaert, E. and M. Martinez, 2001, “Three meanings of intergenerational mobility”, Economica, 68, 519-537.

2000:

• Gobbin, N. and B. Merlevede, 2000, “The Russian crisis: a debt perspective”, Post-Communist Economies, 12.
• Heylen, F. and G. Everaert, 2000, “Success and failure of fiscal consolidation in the OECD: a multivariate analysis,” Public Choice, 105, 103-124.

1999:

• Bossert, W., Fleurbaey, M. and D. Van de gaer, 1999, “Responsibility, Talent and Compensation: a Second Best Analysis”, Review of Economic Design, 4, 35-55.
• Van de gaer, D., Funnell, N. and T. McCarthy, 1999, “Statistical Inference for Two Measures of Inequality when Incomes are Correlated”, Economics Letters, 64, 295-300.

1998:

• Rayp, G., 1998, “An Empirical Test of the Dixit-Norman Approach to Factor Price Equalization, Using Co-integration Techniques’, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 134(3), 484-513.

1997:

• Van de gaer, D., E. Schokkaert and G. De Bruyne, 1997, “Inequality Aversion, Macroeconomic Objectives and the Marginal Welfare Cost of Indirect Taxation”, European Journal of Political Economy, 13, 315-341.

1996:

• Heylen, F. and A. Van Poeck, 1996, "Central bank independence: only part of the inflation story", De Economist, 144(1), 45-61
• Heylen, F., Goubert, L. and E. Omey, 1996, "Unemployment in Europe: a problem of relative or aggregate demand for labour?", International Labour Review, 135(1), 17-36.

1995:

• Cuyvers, L., De Pelsmacker, P., Rayp, G. and I. Roozen, 1995, “A Decision Support Model for the Planning and the Assessment of Export Promotion Activities: the Belgian Case” International Journal of Research in Marketing, 12, 173-186.
• De Pelsmacker, P., Cuyvers, L. and G. Rayp, 1995, “Japanese and Western Companies in Belgium : A Quantitative Analysis of Management Styles in Belgium,” Journal of Euro-Asian Management, 1(1), 65-83.
• Heylen, F. and A. Van Poeck, 1995, "National labour market institutions and the European Economic and Monetary Integration process", Journal of Common Market Studies, 33(4), 573-595.
• Heylen, F., 1995, "Institutions and the rise of taxes on labour in the OECD", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 131(4), 623-654.
• Heylen, F., Van Poeck, A. and J. Van Gompel, 1995, "Real versus nominal convergence. National labour markets and the European integration process", Labour, 9(1), 97-119.

1993:

• Heylen, F., 1993, "Labour market structures, labour market policy and wage formation in the OECD", Labour, 7(2), 25-51.

1992:

• Van de gaer, D., E. Schokkaert and G. De Bruyne, 1992, “Marginal Tax Reform in Different Macro-economic Regimes”, Public Finance / Finances Publiques, 47, supplement, 256-270.

1991:

• Bettendorf, L. and D. Van de gaer, 1991, “Dynamic Portfolio Models”, Economic and Financial Computing, 1, 291-301.