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Nick Deschacht is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at KU Leuven since 2020, concurrently serving as a Guest Professor in Labor Economics at the University of Antwerp (2024-2025). He holds a PhD in Economics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2011). His research focuses on labor economics, applied microeconometrics, and the political economy of labor markets, with an emphasis on gender pay gaps, monopsony power, and policy interventions. He has supervised multiple PhD projects, including work on monopsony dynamics and labor market segregation.
Education: PhD in Economics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2011).
Research Interests: Labor economics, gender disparities, labor market frictions, econometric methods, and policy analysis. His work bridges theoretical models with empirical evidence to address issues like wage sensitivity, employer branding, and spatial mismatch.
Grants & Projects: Co-leads the SEAD project (€1.385M) on sustainable employment in digitalization, and supervises studies on vertical segregation and non-EU labor market integration. Recent grants include FWO funding for gender pension gap research and Flemish government initiatives on labor market policies.
Teaching: Teaches econometrics, labor economics, and policy evaluation at bachelor’s and master’s levels. Recognized as 'Best Teacher' at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business in 2017, 2020, and 2021.
Labs/Teams: Active in the Economics Research Group at KU Leuven and collaborates with institutions like Innoviris Brussels and the National Bank of Belgium on applied labor market studies.
