Didier Fouarge is head of research of the Dynamics of the Labour Market research programme at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University. He holds a Chair of “Dynamics of skills allocation” at the School of  Business and Economics at Maastricht University. He studied economics at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) in Namur, Belgium. He holds a PhD from Tilburg University on the topic of poverty dynamics and social policy in Europe. He has been working at ROA since 2007, and has been heading ROA’s research programme Dynamics of the Labour Market since 2014. His main research interests reside in scientific and applied research on labour market dynamics, labour supply decision (working time, retirement) and human capital. Didier Fouarge at IDEAS:  http://ideas.repec.org/e/pfo104.html.

Fields of Expertise
Acquisition of skills and skill obsolescence; Wages, job satisfaction and mobility; Labour market forecasting; Allocation of skills in the labour market; Skill biased technological and organisational change; Educational and occupational choice; Labour force participation; Labour force participation; Ageing and retirement; Labour market mobility; Regional labour demand.

CV: http://roa.sbe.maastrichtuniversity.nl/roanew/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/fullcv_fouarge.pdf