About Dr. Vijverberg
Dr. Wim Vijverberg is a faculty member in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (previously, Social Sciences) at UT-Dallas and Associate Program Head of the Economics Program.
Educated at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (B.S. Econometrics, 1975), University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. Economics, 1981) and Yale University (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Economic Growth Center within the Department of Economics, 1981-1984), Dr. Vijverberg joined the faculty of UT-Dallas in 1986 as an assistant professor. He received promotion to the rank of associate professor in 1991 and to the rank of full professor in 1997.
As a teacher, he has been regularly involved in various courses in Econometrics, both at the graduate and undergraduate level; in Economic Development, dealing with the processes of growth and development in Third World countries, mostly at the graduate level; in Labor and Human Resources, both at the graduate and undergraduate level; in Basic Techniques for Economic Research, at the undergraduate level; and in International Trade, at the undergraduate level. He has chaired eight dissertation committees and is currently supervising three more.
He has published more than 40 articles in refereed journals and edited books, and several writings are currently under submission. Another dozen writings have appeared in the form of working papers or reports. In this research, there are five lines that are to some degree interwoven:
- Earnings of and migration among wage employees in less developed countries
- Non-farm self-employment in less developed countries
- Econometric analysis of selectivity models
- Industrial country labor markets, with applications of U.S. and the Netherlands
- Econometric issues of various kinds, often prompted by discussions with colleagues and students
The overarching theme is a focus on the sorting mechanism that generates labor market outcomes in the form of earnings and jobs (or economic activities). Many papers deal with a developing country labor market, using data from India, Malaysia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Peru, Tanzania, and Vietnam, but the techniques developed in these papers extend to industrial country labor markets as well.
Plans for future research deal with econometric modeling of labor market sorting models; limited dependent variable models; theoretical and empirical developments of household decision maker models; and a study of U.S. job-related data.
He has served as a consultant with The World Bank, a large international organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C.; with Management Systems International, a private consulting firm; and with a project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Broadly speaking, this work has focused on labor market issues in developing countries. Most recently, it has dealt with the development and design of a non-farm enterprise module within a broad household questionnaire, and with the measurement of the investment climate in rural areas of developing countries. He also served as a consultant for Axiometrics, Inc., a Dallas-based firm specializing in apartment rental information, where he developed a forecasting model of the growth in apartment rental rates and presented this model to members of the real estate investment and management community.
contact info
- E-mail: vijver@utdallas.edu
- Home Page: http://www.utdallas.edu/~vijver
- Office Phone: (972) 883-2042
- Fax: (972) 883-6297
- Office: GR 3.805 (Green Hall)
- (Take elevator to level 3, turn right as you exit, turn right into the first hallway, walk to the end, turn left: I have the second office on the right.)
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- Dr. Wim Vijverberg
- University of Texas at Dallas
- 800 W. Campbell Rd
- Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
- Dr. Wim Vijverberg
