RESUME
Kevin Pineda-Hernández is a PhD researcher in economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He defended his PhD thesis "Wages, overeducation and poverty: the role of origin and institutions" in November 2023, which was funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.–FNRS). He is also a teaching assistant and temporary lecturer in labour economics.
Kevin has been involved in federal and inter-university projects to assess and improve the labour market integration of people with a migration background in Belgium. He has also published his work in the British Journal of Industrial Relations and Education Economics and presented it at international conferences (e.g. EALE or AASLE).
He is also a DULBEA (ULB), Soci&ter (UMONS), and GLO member.
Kevin has been involved in federal and inter-university projects to assess and improve the labour market integration of people with a migration background in Belgium. He has also published his work in the British Journal of Industrial Relations and Education Economics and presented it at international conferences (e.g. EALE or AASLE).
He is also a DULBEA (ULB), Soci&ter (UMONS), and GLO member.
RESEARCH FIELDS
Labour economics | Applied econometrics | Immigration | Labour institutions | Wage inequality | Overeducation | Rent-sharing
KEYWORDS
First- and second-generation immigrants | Intergenerational mobility | Belgian labour market | Collective Bargaining | Poverty
most RECENT publications
- How collective bargaining shapes poverty: new evidence for developed countries. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022 (with F. Rycx & M. Volral).
- Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? The moderating role of workers’ origin and immigrants’ background. Education Economics, 2022 (with V. Jacobs, F. Rycx & M. Volral).
- Moving up the social ladder? Wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries. IZA Discussion Paper (with F. Rycx & M. Volral).
