Philippe Van Kerm
Professor of Social Inequality and Social Policy
University of Luxembourg
Campus Belval
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11 Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
Luxembourg
philippe.vankerm /at/ uni.lu
Research interests
Empirics of income distribution and social welfare
Applied labour, welfare, public economics
Inequality and social welfare: Measurement, modelling, inference
Income dynamics, social mobility, wage differentials, wealth inequality, health inequalities
Survey statistics, statistical computing, data visualisation
Selected publications
Bequest division: The roles of parental motives and children’s gender composition (2026), Labour Economics, 10295 (with W.N. Lekfuangfu and J. Olivera).
The role of information in eliciting support for inheritance taxation: experimental evidence from Luxembourg (2026), International Tax and Public Finance (with J. Olivera and E. Schokkaert).
The influence of inheritances on wealth inequality in rich countries (2025), Journal of Public Economics, 247(C), 105398 (with S. Morelli, B. Nolan and J.C. Palomino).
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education (2024), Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 92, 100961 (with A. Alieva and V.A. Hildebrand).
The wealth (disadvantage) of single-parent households (2022), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 702(1), 188-204 (with B. Nolan, J.C. Palomino and S. Morelli).
Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources (2022), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(1), 158-184 (with I. Kyzyma and A. Fusco).
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households (2021), Journal of European Social Policy, 31(5), 533-548 (with S. Morelli, B. Nolan and J.C. Palomino).
Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce? (2019), Demography, 56(3), 785-811 (with B. Ozcan and A. Goisis).
Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal? (2018), Econometrics, 6(3), 1-26 (with C. Choe).
Modelling earnings dynamics and inequality: foreign workers and inequality trends in Luxembourg, 1988--2009 (2018), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A: Statistics in Society), 181(2), 409-440 (with D.M. Sologon).
Assessing Individual Income Growth (2016), Economica, 83(332), 679-703 (with S.P. Jenkins).
Wealth Inequality: A Survey (2015), Journal of Economic Surveys, 29(4), 671-710 (with F.A. Cowell).
Recently added material
Bequest division: The roles of parental motives and children’s gender composition (2026), Labour Economics, 10295 (with W.N. Lekfuangfu and J. Olivera).
The role of information in eliciting support for inheritance taxation: experimental evidence from Luxembourg (2026), International Tax and Public Finance (with J. Olivera and E. Schokkaert).
Cross-country evidence on the individual dynamics of in-work poverty in the EU (2026), Economic Systems, 50(2), 101360 (with M.C. D'Aguanno and A.-C. Guio).
Automation and income inequality in Europe (2026), Industrial and Labour Relations Review (with K. Doorley, J. Gromadzki, P. Lewandowski and D. Tuda).