Bart Cockx

Research Fellow

Ghent University

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Between 1982 and 1987 Bart Cockx studied economics at the Catholic University of Leuven (undergraduate degree) and at the London School of Economics (MSc). He obtained his PhD in Leuven in 1992. Between 1993 and 2008, he was professor at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Currently, he's professor at SHERPPA, Ghent University. His major research interest is the evaluation of labour market policies. He has published in journals such as the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) and the Journal of Public Economics.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2001.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16596
The Long-Term Impact of Parental Migration on the Health of Young Left-behind Children
Jinkai Li, Erga Luo, Bart Cockx
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16153
Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe
Revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16122
Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Bart Cockx, Sam Desiere
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15439
Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 95, 102424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14767
How Effective Are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Sam Desiere, Bart Cockx
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2022, 12(1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13825
How Does Working-Time Flexibility Affect Workers' Productivity in a Routine Job? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Marie Boltz, Bart Cockx, Ana Maria Diaz, Luz Salas
published in in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (1), 159 - 187
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. 12875
Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, Joost Bollens
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102306
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. 10221
Waiting Longer Before Claiming, and Activating Youth: No Point?
Bart Cockx, Eva Van Belle
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 658-687
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