Alexandre Ounnas is a Research Fellow in the Job and Skills Unit at CEPS.
Alexandre is an expert in labour market analysis. He has taken part in different EU-funded projects covering various areas of interest for labour market policies at European level.
He contributed to the study in support of the European Commission’s impact assessment for the initiative on traineeships. Alexandre also took part in the Horizon 2020 project PERISCOPE for which he analysed the use of job retention schemes across Member States during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report was followed by a study commissioned by the CONT Committee of the European Parliament, for which he analysed more closely job retention schemes in Member States who benefited from the temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risk in an Emergency (SURE). Furthermore, Alexandre has expertise in industrial relations as he contributed to the VIRAGE project on industrial relations and gender equality and the BFORE project on collective bargaining and income inequalities.
For each of these projects, Alexandre used individual level (or micro) data provided by Eurostat. The datasets include the European Labour Force Survey and the Structure of Earnings Survey, which contain detailed information on workers and jobs characteristics and allow for more precise analysis of the topics of interest. At European level, these datasets contain millions of observations and Alexandre therefore has substantial experience working with large datasets. His expertise further includes a wide range of econometric methods for both, time series for forecasting and individual level data for policy evaluation.
Alexandre holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain, a Master’s in Econometrics from Université Cath Lique de Louvain and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management from Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Mother tongue French, he is fluent in English and has good knowledge of Italian.
