Research


Peer-reviewed articles


Immigrant overeducation across two generations: The role of gender and part-time work. Oxford Economic Papers, 2024 (with F. Rycx & M. Volral)


How collective bargaining shapes poverty: New evidence for developed countries. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022 (with F. Rycx & M. Volral)


Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers’ origin and immigrants’ background. Education Economics, 2022 (with V. Jacobs, F. Rycx & M. Volral)


Work in progress


Working-time reduction and productivity: Firm-level evidence from a Belgian reform (with A. Garnero, F. Rycx & A. Tondini)


Overeducation across formal and informal labour markets: Evidence from Latin America


Democracy and reforms: A continent-specific relationship


Foreign-sounding names and overeducation (with G. Perilleux and F. Rycx).


Immigrant-native wage gaps and their sources: An empirical analysis over two generations 


Origin-based wage gaps: How much does rent-sharing matter?


Rent-sharing and gender using employer-employee data (with A. Warocquier, F. Rycx & M. Volral) 


Doctoral Thesis

  

Wages, overeducation and poverty: The role of origin and institutions. [English version] [French version]

Supervised by Prof. François Rycx (ULB) and Prof. Mélanie Volral (UMONS).


Speaker - international academic conferences


2023:

Organised by Ana Cardoso (ULisboa) and David Card (UC Berkeley, 2021 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics). 


Presenter in parallel sessions - international academic conferences

 

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Research projects


LAMIE Project: The labour market disadvantage of citizens with a migration background: from measuring to explaining and remedying


Baromètre: Personnes issues de l’immigration sur le marché du travail belge selon leur genre 

[Short version in FR] [Short version in NL] [Extended version in FR] [Extended version in NL].

 

IMMIGBEL/IMMILAB Project: Improving the labour market position of people with a migration background [Final Report].