A l'instar de la population dans son ensemble, la force de travail vieillit. Cette tendance devrait se renforcer du fait des politiques visant à augmenter le taux d'emploi au-delà de 50 ans. Mais les entreprises localisées en Belgique sont-elles disposées à employer plus de travailleurs...

This paper uses Belgian firm-level data, covering the 1998-2006 period, to assess the impact on TFP growth of key labour force structural changes: ageing, feminisation and rise of educational attainment. Based on a Hellerstein-Neumark analytical framework, our work shows that an ageing workforce...

This paper is a theoretical exercise aimed at developing an economic analysis of an education system in which the educational output - apart from each individual's propensity to invest in himself or the level of per-pupil spending - is heavily conditioned by the way non-monetary inputs (peer...

This paper evaluates the effects of grade retention on attainment by exploiting a reform introduced in 2001 in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium whereby the possibility of grade retention in grade 7 was reintroduced. It uses the Synthetic Control Method to identify the best possible...

The Belgian population is ageing due to demographic changes, so does the workforce of firms active in the country. Such a trend is likely to remain for the foreseeable future. And it will be reinforced by the willingness of public authorities to expand employment among individuals aged 50 or...

The Belgian population is ageing due to demographic changes; so does the workforce of firms active in the country. Such a trend is likely to remain for the foreseeable future. And it will be reinforced by the willingness of public authorities to expand employment among individuals aged 50 or...

Are employers willing to employ more older individuals, in particular older women? Higher employment among the older segments of the population will only materialise if firms are willing to employ them. Although several economists have started considering the demand side of the labour market for...

Like active labour market programmes (ALPMs), grade repetition could generate two types of effects. Better/worse outcomes due to programme participation (i.e. the fact that pupils repeat a particular grade). This is what the existing literature on grade repetition has focused on. Another...

Faut-il maintenir l’enseignement universitaire gratuit ? Cette question délicate comprend de multiples aspects. Entre autres, ceux du financement des universités et de la justice sociale sont évoqués ici.

Face à la mobilité étudiante envahissante une alternative aux quotas existe, plus efficace et équitable à la fois. Elle n’implique ni le recours à l’impôt européen ni l’augmentation du coût privé des études. Plus simplement il s’agit de transformer le rôle des pouvoirs...