Lex Borghans

Research Fellow

Maastricht University

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Lex Borghans (Ph.D. Maastricht University) is professor of labor economics and social policy at the department of economics, Maastricht University. In his research he focused on adjustment processes in the labor market, and the impact of computers on the structure of earnings and the division of labor. Currently his main research activities concern non-cognitive skills, educational production, and educational choice.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2865
Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
Lex Borghans, Ben Kriechel
published in: Edward Lazear and Katryn Shaw (eds.), The Structure of Wages: An International Comparisons, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2466
Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 815-858
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2429
The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores
Lex Borghans, Huub Meijers, Bas ter Weel
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46 (1), 2-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2021
Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn
published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (13), 1663-1678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1838
Is There a Link between Economic Outcomes and Genetic Evolution? Cross-Country Evidence from the Major Histocompatibility Complex
José A.M. Borghans, Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1709
The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F45-F72
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1597
Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4(1), 39-61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1494
People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 287-334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1107
The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages
Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel
published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 715-748
IZA Discussion Paper No. 907
Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison
Arnaud Dupuy, Lex Borghans
published in: Applied Economics, 2005, 37 (9), 1073-1088
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