Bart Cockx

Research Fellow

Ghent University

bart.cockx@ugent.be

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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. 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 [Online Access]

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, 36, 276-294 [Online Access]

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 Review, 2015, 68(3), 467-500 [Online Access]

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 [Online Access]

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5937

Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers

Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980 [Online Access]