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Augustin De Coulon

King’s College London, UK, and IZA, Germany

I am enthusiastic about this innovative project. I wish that policymakers and academics find the series World of Labor a quick entry into the latest research on a wide range of issues in labor policy

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Author

Current position

Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Management and Business, Kings College, London, UK

Research interest

Labor economics, with emphasis on immigration and education

Website

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/augustin.decoulon.html

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Research Economist for the Secretariate for Economic Affairs (Seco), Swiss government (1999–2000); consultant for: WTO (1998), OECD (1999), UK Department for Children, School and Families (DCSF) (2006–2009); UK Low Pay Commission (2009), UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) (2014–)

Past positions

Research Officer (2005–2006), Senior Research Officer (2007–2008), Senior Lecturer and Associate Director Research (2008–2009), NRDC, Faculty of Policy and Society, Institute of Education, University of London; Lecturer, Economics Department, Queen Mary, University of London (2002–2005 ); Economist, Swiss Federal Government, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Labour Market Policy Unit (1999–2000)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Geneva, 2000

Selected publications

  • “Pane e Cioccolata: The impact of native attitudes on return migration.” Review of International Economics, 24:2 (2016): 253–281 (with D. Radu and M. Steinhardt).

  • “A longitudinal analysis of UK second-generation disadvantaged immigrants.” Education Economics 21:2 (2013): 105–134 (with M. Meunier, O. Marcenaro, and A. Vignoles).

  • “Migration networks and migration policy: A grease or sand the wheel relationship?” CESifo DICE Report, Journal for Institutional Comparison 9:4 (2011): 32–35 (with D. Radu).

  • “The value of basic skills in the British labour market” Oxford Economic Papers 63:1 (2011): 27–48 (with A. Vignoles and O. Marcenaro).

  • “On the relative rewards to immigration: A comparison of the relative labour market positions of Indians in the USA, the UK and India.” Review of Economics of the Household 8:1 (2010): 147–169 (with J. Wadsworth).

article(s)

  • Where do immigrants retire to?

    Immigrants’ retirement decisions can greatly affect health care and social protection costs

    Augustin De Coulon, September 2016
    As migration rates increase across the world, the choice of whether to retire in the host or home country is becoming a key decision for up to 15% of the world’s population, and this proportion is growing rapidly. Large waves of immigrants who re-settled in the second half of the 20th century are now beginning to retire. Although immigrants’ location choice at retirement is an area that has barely been studied, this decision has crucial implications for health care and social protection expenditures, both in host and origin countries.
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