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:
Collective bargaining in the 21st century, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal [See conference website]
Organised by Ana Cardoso (ULisboa) and David Card (UC Berkeley, 2021 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics).
Presenter in parallel sessions - international academic conferences
2024:
International Association for Applied Econometrics 2024 Annual Conference, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
58th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
Scottish Economic Society Annual 2024 Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
2023:
Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2023 Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
18th Belgian Day for Labour Economists, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
36th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Serbian Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
Conference in Applied Econometrics using STATA, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
15th Workshop on Labour Economics, University of Trier (IAAEU), Trier, Germany
2022:
Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics 2022 Conference, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Warsaw International Economic Meeting, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
56th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
14th Workshop on Labour Economics, University of Trier (IAAEU), Trier, Germany
2021:
Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists, University of Padua, Italy (online conference)
Research projects
LAMIE Project: The labour market disadvantage of citizens with a migration background: from measuring to explaining and remedying
Partners: Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteit Gent, Université libre de Bruxelles & Université de Mons
Funding: Belgian Federal Scientific Policy Office (BELSPO)
Research contract: October 2023 – December 2024
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].
Partners: Vrije Universteit Brussel, Université libre de Bruxelles & Université de Mons
Funding: King Baudouin Foundation
Research contract: May 2022 – September 2023
IMMIGBEL/IMMILAB Project: Improving the labour market position of people with a migration background [Final Report].
Partners: Universiteit Antwerpen, Université libre de Bruxelles & Université de Mons
Funding: Belgian Federal Scientific Policy Office (BELSPO)
Research contract: October 2019 – September 2020