FWO funded doctoral project at the intersection of banking and labour economics KU Leuven
The goal of this project is to analyze the effect of banks’ credit supply on employment and workforce composition; i.e., on firms’ decisions to employ blue vs. white collar workers, to train their staff, or to offer long- vs. short-term contracts. We propose to estimate this effect for the Belgian economy, and to characterize heterogeneity across a variety of bank, firm, and job characteristics. Conditions in Belgium further enable us to ...