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Stijn Broecke

OECD, France, and IZA, Germany

Working at the intersection of research and policy, I find the IZA World of Labor series an extremely useful and trustworthy resource that I regularly consult and refer to as part of my job

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Author

Current position

Economist, OECD

Research interest

Labor economics, education economics, development economics

Website

https://www.iza.org/person/8754/stijn-broecke

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Economist, Africa Development Bank; Economic Adviser, UK Civil Service

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011

Selected publications

  • "University rankings: Do they matter in the UK?" Education Economics 23:2 (2015): 137–161.

  • "Wage inequality and cognitive skills: Re-opening the debate." In: Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015 (with G. Quintini and M. Vandeweyer).

  • "The returns to education in Africa: Some new estimates." Journal of Development Studies 50:12 (2014): 1593–1613 (with M. Barouni).

  • "Does offering more science at school increase the supply of scientists?" Education Economics 21:4 (2013): 325–342.

  • "Tackling graduate unemployment in North Africa through employment subsidies: A look at the SIVP programme in Tunisia." IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2:1 (2013): 1–19.

article(s)

  • Do skills matter for wage inequality?

    Policies to tackle wage inequality should focus on skills alongside reform of labor market institutions

    Stijn Broecke, February 2016
    Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive) skills explain little of the cross-country differences in wage inequality. Does this challenge the received wisdom on the relationship between skills and wage inequality? No, because this recent research fails to account for the fact that the price of skill (and thus wage inequality) is determined to a large extent by the match of skill supply and demand.
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