Gerard van den Berg

Title

Professor

Areas of interest

• labor economics
• applied econometrics

Recent publications and scientific papers

Articles in refereed journals

• Van den Berg GJ, M Lindeboom & F Portrait (2005) "Economic conditions early in life and individual mortality", forthcoming in American Economic Review
• Van den Berg GJ & B van der Klaauw (2005) "Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers: theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment", forthcoming in International Economic Review
• Eckstein Z & GJ van den Berg (2005) "Empirical labor search models: a survey", forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics
• Abbring JH, GJ van den Berg & JC van Ours (2005) "The effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment", forthcoming in Economic Journal
• Abbring JH & GJ van den Berg (2004) "Analyzing the effect of dynamically assigned treatments using duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models" Empirical Economics vol 29, p 5-20, reprinted in: BH Baltagi, ed (2004), Panel Data: Theory and Applications (Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg)
• Van den Berg GJ, B van der Klaauw & JC van Ours (2004) "Punitive sanctions and the transition rate from welfare to work", Journal of Labor Economics vol 22, p 211-241
• Van den Berg GJ (2003) "Multiple equilibria and minimum wages in labor markets with informational frictions and heterogeneous production technologies", International Economic Review vol 44, p 1337-1357
• Van den Berg GJ, AGC van Lomwel & JC van Ours (2003) "Unemployment dynamics and age", Annales d'Économie et de Statistique vol 70, p 1-30
• Abbring JH & GJ van den Berg (2003) "The non-parametric identification of treatment effects in duration models", Econometrica vol 71, p 1491-1517
• Abbring JH & GJ van den Berg (2003) "The identifiability of the mixed proportional hazards competing risks model", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B vol 65, p 701-710
• Ridder G & GJ van den Berg (2003) "Measuring labor market frictions: a cross-country comparison", Journal of the European Economic Association vol 1, p 224-244

IFAU-reports and working papers

• Horny G, R  Mendes och G J. van den Berg  "Job durations with worker and firm specific effects: MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data", Working paper 2009:4, IFAU
• Crépon B, M Ferracci, G Jolivet and G.J. van den Berg "Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting", Working Paper 2009:1, IFAU
• Van den Berg G.J., A Bergemann and M Caliendo "The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals", Working Paper 2008:26, IFAU
• Van den Berg G.J., G Doblhammer-Reiter and K Christensen "Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life - evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business cycle, "Working Paper 2008:16, IFAU
• Richardson K and G.J. van den Berg "Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment", Working paper 2008:7, IFAU
• Costa Dias M, H Ichimura & G. J. van den Berg "The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles", Working paper 2008:6, IFAU
• Bergemann A & G van den Berg "Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey", Working paper 2007:3, IFAU
• van den Berg G J "Competing risks models", Working Paper 2005:25, IFAU
• Abbring JH & GJ van den Berg “ Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes”, Working paper 2005:11, IFAU
• van den Berg GJ & B van der Klaauw “ Jobsearch monitoring and sanctions – a brief survey of some recent results”, Report 2005:8, IFAU
• Z Marloes, GJ van den Berg & A Heyma “Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work”, Working paper 2004:19 , IFAU
• Albrecht J, GJ van den Berg & S Vroman “The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels”,Working paper 2004:17, IFAU
• van den Berg GJ, M Lindeboom & PJ Dolton “Survey non-response and unemployment duration”, Working paper 2004:12, IFAU
• Abbring Jaap H & GJ van den Berg “A simple procedure for the evaluation of treatment effects on duration variables”, Working paper 2003:19, IFAU
• Eckstein Z & GJ van den Berg ”Empirical labor search models: A survey”, Working paper  2003:18, IFAU
  van den Berg G J & A van Vuuren “The effect of search frictions on wages”, Working paper 2003:12, IFAU
• Ridder G & GJ van den Berg “A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions”, Working paper 2002:22, IFAU
• Abbring Jaap H, GJ van den Berg “Dynamically assigned treatments: duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models”, Working paper 2002:20, IFAU
• Lindeboom M, F Portrait & GJ van den Berg “An econometric analysis of the mental-health effects of major events in the life of older individuals”, Working paper 2002:19, IFAU
• Richardson K & GJ van den Berg “The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work”, Working paper 2002:8, IFAU
• van den Berg G & B van der Klaauw “Counceling and monitoring of unemployed workers: theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment”, Working paper 2001:12, IFAU

Referee for journals and books

American Economic Review, Biometrics, Econometrica, Econometric Theory, Economica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Dynamics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Current research projects

• The effect of active labor market training on individual productivity and occupational mobility (Reg No 154/09)
• The economic aspects of grief (Reg No 36/09)
• Treatment effects with duration outcomes (includes IFAU project with L Lindqvist and K Richardson "Sanctions in Sweden")
• Labor market policy effects (includes IFAU research grant "Advancing Programme Evaluation Methods" 2003-2006, and ESRC grant 2004-2007, with H Ichimura, and L Lindqvist)
• Economic conditions and mortality rates
• Search models of the labor market

Current appointments

• Full Professor of Economics at Dept. of Economics, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since 1996
• IFAU, Uppsala: Professor, since 1999
  IZA, Bonn: Program Director "Evaluation of Labor Market Programs", since 2004, and Research Fellow, since 1999
• IFS, London: Research Fellow, since 2004
  INSEE-CREST, Paris: Member, since 1998
• CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), London: Research Fellow, since 1995