Prof. Dr. Philippe Van Kerm
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| Faculté ou Centre | Faculté des Sciences Humaines, des Sciences de l'Éducation et des Sciences Sociales | ||||
| Department | Département Sciences sociales | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Bureau sur le campus | MSH, E04 35-150 | ||||
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| Téléphone | (+352) 46 66 44 9041 | ||||
Philippe Van Kerm is Professor of Social Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Luxembourg since 2017 on a joint appointment with the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). He holds an MA degree in Economics and Social Sciences and a PhD in Economics from the University of Namur (Belgium). Before joining the University of Luxembourg, he was head of the Living Conditions department at LISER where has also been scientific director (ad interim) and head of the Graduate Studies Programme. He has been a visiting researcher or research fellow at the London School of Economics, the University of Leuven, ZEW Mannheim, and is currently a fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of Essex) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (University of Oxford).
His research interests are in applied micro-econometrics, welfare and labour with particular reference to poverty and income distribution dynamics, wealth inequality, social mobility, wage, tax, social protection and social policy.
He is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality since 2017.
He was country team leader for Luxembourg in the EU FP7 project‘Growing Inequalities' Impacts’(GINI) and principal investigator on CORE and VIVRE research grants from the Luxembourg's Fonds National de la Recherche for‘Advances in the measurement of discrimination, inequality and economic mobility’(2007-2009),‘Information and wage inequality’(2010-2013),‘Tax-benefit systems, employment structures and cross-country differences in income inequality in Europe’(2013-2017), and is currently the national leader for Luxembourg in the NORFACE project‘The impact of childhood circumstances on individual outcomes over the life-course’(IMCHILD, 2018-2020).
Last updated on: lundi 01 février 2021
Last updated on: 09 fév 2018
2022
Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources; ;
in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2022), n/a(n/a),
Understanding Twenty Years of Inequality and Poverty Trends in Russia;
in Review of Income and Wealth (2022), 68(S1), 108-130
Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2022, June 03)
Intergenerational wealth transfers in Great Britain from the Wealth and Assets Survey in comparative perspective; ; ;
in Fiscal Studies (2022), 43(2), 179-199
The wealth (disadvantage) of single-parent households; ; ;
in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2022), 702(1), 188-204
Public Support for Tax Policies in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from Luxembourg;
in International Tax and Public Finance (2022), 29
2021
New Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity Across European Cohorts (and Some Insights on the Long-term Impact of Educational Policy); ; ;
Scientific Conference (2021, August 25)
Rotation group bias in European Union social indicators; ;
in Guio, Anne-Catherine; Marlier, Eric; Nolan, Brian (Eds.) Improving the understanding of poverty and social exclusion in Europe (2021)
Foreign-born households in the income distribution and their contribution to social indicators in European countries; ;
in Guio, Anne-Catherine; Marlier, Eric; Nolan, Brian (Eds.) Improving the understanding of poverty and social exclusion in Europe (2021)
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households; ; ;
in Journal of European Social Policy (2021), 31(5), 533-548
Intergenerational wealth transfers and wealth inequality in rich countries: What do we learn from Gini decomposition?; ; ;
in Economics Letters (2021), 199
Public support for tax policies in COVID-19 times: Evidence from Luxembourg;
E-print/Working paper (2021)
Higher Education Expansion and Inequality in Labour Incomes: The Importance of a Gendered Perspective;
Article for general public (2021)
Accounting for Differences in Income Inequality across Countries: Tax-benefit Policy, Labour Market Structure, Returns and Demographics; ; ;
in Journal of Economic Inequality (2021), 19
2020
The intergenerational transmission of wealth in rich countries; ; ;
Article for general public (2020)
2019
Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the United Kingdom and Ireland; ;
in Review of Income and Wealth (2019), 65(3), 514-539
Income and Wealth Above the Median: New Measurements and Results for Europe and the United States; ; ;
in Decancq, Koen; van Kerm, Philippe (Eds.) What Drives Inequality (2019)
Distributional change: Assessing the contribution of household income sources; ;
E-print/Working paper (2019)
Accounting for the distributional effects of the 2007-2008 crisis and the Economic Adjustment Program in Portugal; ;
E-print/Working paper (2019)
2018
Macroprudential policy and household wealth inequality; ;
in Journal of International Money and Finance (2018), 85(C), 262-277
Increasing Inequality in Joint Income and Wealth Distributions in the United States, 1995 to 2013; ; ;
in Conference Online Programme & Papers (2018, May)
Logitrank Based Measures of Joint Income and Wealth Distributions: Inequality in the U.S. and Europe; ; ;
Poster (2018, June)
Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal?;
in Econometrics (2018), 6(3),
Wealth Inequality; ;
in Nolan, Brian (Ed.) Generating Prosperity for Working Families in Affluent Countries (2018)
Modelling earnings dynamics and inequality: foreign workers and inequality trends in Luxembourg, 1988--2009;
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society (2018), 181(2), 409-440
Accounting for Differences in Income Inequality across Countries: Ireland and the United Kingdom; ; ;
E-print/Working paper (2018)
Accounting for income distribution differences over time and across countriesPresentation (2018, January)
2017
Wealth, Top Incomes, and Inequality; ; ;
in Hamilton, Kirk; Hepburn, Cameron (Eds.) National Wealth: What is Missing, Why it Matters (2017)
Measuring and accounting for the deprivation gap of Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg; ;
in Review of Income and Wealth (2017), 63(2), 288-309
How does attrition affect estimates of persistent poverty rates? The case of EU-SILC;
in Atkinson, Anthony B.; Guio, Anne-Catherine; Marlier, Eric (Eds.) Monitoring Social Inclusion in Europe (2017)
2016
A distribution-sensitive examination of the gender wage gap in Germany;
in Journal of Economic Inequality (2016), 14(1), 21-40
Decomposing quantile wage gaps: a conditional likelihood approach; ;
in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C Applied Statistics (2016), 65(4), 507-527
2015
Modeling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth; ;
in Garner, Thesia; Short, Kathleen (Eds.) Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (2015)
2014
Les inégalités de salaire;
in Marlier, Eric; Brosius, Jacques; Dautel, Vincent; Decoville, Antoine; Durand, Frédéric; Gerber, Philippe; Guio, Anne-Catherine (Eds.) Cohésion sociale et territoriale au Luxembourg, Regards croisés (2014)
Luxembourg: Has inequality grown enough to matter?; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Nolan, Brian; Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele; Marx, Ive; McKnight, Abigail; Tòth, Istvan; van de Werfhorst, Herman (Eds.) Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries' Experiences (2014)
The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty;
in Social Indicators Research (2014), 116(2), 611-638
2013
The joint distribution of income and wealth; ;
in Gornick, Janet; Jäntti, Markus (Eds.) Economic Inequality in Cross-National Perspective (2013)
Inequality, growth and mobility: The intertemporal distribution of income in European countries 2003--2007;
in Economic Modelling (2013), 35(C), 931-939
2012
Kernel-smoothed cumulative distribution function estimation with akdensityin Stata Journal (2012), 12(3), 543-548
2009
Income inequality and self-reported health status: Evidence from the European Community Household Panel survey;
in Demography (2009), 46(4), 805-825
The measurement of economic inequality;
in Salverda, Wiemer; Nolan, Brian; Smeeding, Timothy M. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality (2009)
