Bruno Van der Linden

Research Fellow

IRES, Université catholique de Louvain

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Research Interests

Bruno Van der Linden was research director at the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium). He is also Emeritus Professor at the Economics Department of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He studied applied mathematics (PhD in 1987) and economics (MA in 1989) at Louvain. Since 1990, he teaches labour economics and evaluation methods. Part of his recent research has examined the links between income taxation, the labour market and welfare. His recent work also covers the evaluation of labour market policies. Other research interests include the explanations of spatial heterogeneities in unemployment rates, the design of unemployment insurance/assistance schemes, and the implications of search and matching frictions. The interactions between environmental constraints and the labour market are his most recent research interest

His published articles are found in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, the IZA Journal of Labor Economics and the IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Oxford Economic Papers, the Journal of Public Economic Theory, Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Annales d’Economie et de Statistique.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13880
Working Time Reduction and Employment in a Finite World
Jean-François Fagnart, Marc Germain, Bruno Van der Linden
published ni: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (1), 170 – 20.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13002
Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?
Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe, Leda Inga, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101816
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11034
Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints
Juliana Mesén Vargas, Bruno Van der Linden
published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10487
Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (1), 75-120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9115
Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation
Muriel Dejemeppe, Catherine Smith, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4 (17)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8276
Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
Etienne Lehmann, Claudio Lucifora, Simone Moriconi, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 1-36.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7828
Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions
Etienne Lehmann, Paola L. Montero Ledezma, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 26-44.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7763
Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Vanessa Lutgen, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 50-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7266
Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
Bart Cockx, Corinna Ghirelli, Bruno Van der Linden
revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6181
Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden
for substantially revised version please see IZA DP 10487
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