Labour flows in Belgium

Pierrette Heuse () and Yves Saks ()
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Pierrette Heuse: National Bank of Belgium, Research Department
Yves Saks: National Bank of Belgium, Research Department

No 162, Working Paper Research from National Bank of Belgium

Abstract: The paper describes job flows in Belgium using micro data at the firm level collected through the annual social balance sheets that companies have to file with the National Bank of Belgium. The coverage of the study is very broad: all industries and commercial services are included. We contribute to the previous literature by studying a long period from 1998 to 2006, covering both upturns and downturns in the Belgian economy. Furthermore, data from the social balance sheets make it possible to take into account the heterogeneity of the workforce, on top of the eterogeneity of firms themselves: job flows are broken down by socio-professional status and type of employment contract

Keywords: Job flows; business cycle; heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2009-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eec and nep-lab
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