This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

This article investigates whether income support for low-paid part-time workers in Belgium increases the transition from unemployment to non-subsidised, ‘regular’ employment. Our analysis uses a sample of long-term unemployed young women. Observing their labour market histories from 1998 to...

Youth unemployment has been on the rise since the beginning of the crisis in 2008. Even more troublesome is the dramatic rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, which has led to widespread concerns about the impact on social cohesion and fears of a “lost...

This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions in Belgium between grandchildren of natives and of women of “non-Western” nationality into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual “pure ethnic gap”. It innovates...

Ce numéro de Regards économiques présente les résultats d’une étude visant à déterminer si les employeurs flamands traitent de manière égale les candidatures à l’emploi des jeunes diplômés aux noms à consonance turque et à consonance flamande. La méthodologie de l’étude...

En Belgique, le chômage des jeunes est structurellement plus élevé que dans de nombreux autres pays européens et touche particulièrement les jeunes peu qualifiés. Les causes principales de ce chômage structurel sont un coût du travail trop élevé en bas de l’échelle des salaires, un...

This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...