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. 9619
Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Yannick Thuy
published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9556
Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School
Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio
revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (3), 403 - 424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9459
Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed: Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep It Public?
Bart Cockx, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8988
Permanent Wage Cost Subsidies for Older Workers: An Effective Tool for Increasing Working Time and Postponing Early Retirement?
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 145-166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8889
Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
Bart Cockx, Corinna Ghirelli
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 162-176
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. 7262
Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?
Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7145
Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Niels Gheyle, Cora Vandamme
revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6562
Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?
Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Dieter Verhaest
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 123-140
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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