# Wiljan van den Berge

> Assistant Professor of Economics at Utrecht University School of Economics. Research on labour markets, technology and automation, social insurance, and the minimum wage, using Dutch administrative microdata and quasi-experimental designs.

## About
- [About](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/about): background, affiliations, and research interests.
- [CV](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/cv): appointments, education, funding, and full publication list.
- [Contact](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/contact): email and affiliations.

## Research
- [Introducing an Hourly Minimum Wage](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/hourly-minimum-wage)
- [The Costs of Waiting: Health Effects of Waiting for Disability Insurance](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/costs-of-waiting)
- [Technological Change, Job Loss and Disability Insurance](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/tech-change-job-loss-di)
- [The Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Youth Crime and Economic Independence](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/youth-minimum-wage-crime)
- [Wage Subsidies for Minimum Wage Workers](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/wage-subsidies-minimum-wage)
- [Domestic Outsourcing and Worker Outcomes: Evidence from Staffing Firms](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/outsourcing-worker-outcomes) — R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics
- [The Effect of Adverse Life-Events on Income Trajectories](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/adverse-life-events) — CPB Discussion Paper
- [What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate?](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/automation-workers) — Review of Economics and Statistics 107(1), 125–141
- [The Young Bunch: Youth Minimum Wages and Labor Market Outcomes](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/the-young-bunch) — ILR Review 77(3), 428–460
- [The Effects of a Tax Deduction for Lifelong Learning Expenditures](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/lifelong-learning-tax-deduction) — International Tax and Public Finance 30(3), 729–756
- [Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/firm-level-automation) — AEA Papers and Proceedings 110, 389–393
- [Automation: A Guide for Policymakers](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/automation-policymakers-guide) — Brookings Institution
- [Labour Market Effects of Job Displacement for Prime-Age and Older Workers](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/job-displacement-prime-age-older) — IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7(3)
- [Bad Start, Bad Match? The Early Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession for Vocational and Academic Graduates](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/bad-start-bad-match) — Labour Economics 53, 75–96
- [Do Parents Work More When Children Are in School?](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/parents-work-children-school)
- [Knowledge Diffusion Across Regions and Countries](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/research/knowledge-diffusion-regions)

## Topics
- [Automation & work](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/topics/automation-and-work): How automation and new technology reshape firms, jobs, and the workers exposed to them, using Dutch administrative microdata to trace who bears the adjustment costs.
- [Job loss & displacement](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/topics/job-loss): What happens to workers' careers and earnings after losing a job — through displacement, automation, or outsourcing — and how well social insurance cushions the shock.
- [Minimum wage](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/topics/minimum-wage): Effects of the (youth) minimum wage and wage subsidies on employment, earnings, household formation and firm behaviour, using quasi-experimental variation in the Netherlands.
- [Disability & health](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/topics/disability-and-health): How adverse shocks push workers onto disability insurance, and how the system itself — through assessments, waiting time and court rulings - shapes the health and labor market outcomes of those moving through it.

## Resources
- [Teaching](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/teaching): courses and student supervision.
- [Data & Code](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/data-and-code): replication packages, code, and data-availability statements.
- [Beleid & Media](https://www.wiljanvandenberge.com/beleid): Dutch-language policy work and media (in progress).