THOMAS LEMIEUX October 2014
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CURRENT POSITIONS
Professor (1999-) and Director (2014-), Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998-
Associated Fellow, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations, 1994-
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research Program on Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being, 2007-2009
Director, Team for Advanced Research on Globalisation, Education, and Technology (TARGET), 2002-2007
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2004
Acting Head, Department of Economics, UBC, April 2001-July 2001
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1996-1997
Research Associate, Centre de recherche et développement en économique, 1992-2000
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal, 1995-1999.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal, 1992-1995.
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1990-1998.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1991-1992.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989-1992.
EDUCATION Ph.D.(Economics), Princeton University, October 1989. M.A.(Economics), Queen's University, November 1985. B.A.(Economics), Université Laval, June 1984.
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Distinguished visitor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, April 28 – May 2 2014 Bank of Canada Fellowship, 2014- Distinguished visitor, Department of Economics, Boston University, April 22-25 2013 Albert Rees Lecture, Society of Labor Economists Meeting, April 2011 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2010- Fellow, Society of Labor Economists, 2009- Keith Hancock Lecture (inaugural lecture), Flinders University, March 2009 Trevor Swan Distinguished Lecture, Australian National University, March 2009 Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia, 2003- Killam Senior Research Prize, University of British Columbia, March 2003 Innis Lecture, Canadian Economic Association, 2002 Royal Bank Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia, 2001-2003 Canadian Economic Association's Rae Prize for Outstanding Research, 1998 Minnesota Award 1996 (for the paper "Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semi-Parametric Approach") National Fellowship, Hoover Institution, 1996-1997. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship, 1985-1989. Québec Fonds FCAR Graduate Scholarship, 1985-1988.
EXECUTIVE POSITIONS IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES AND ADVISORY BOARDS Canadian Economics Association: Former President, 2014-15 President, 2013-14 President-elect, 2012-13 Vice-President, 2011-12 Executive committee member, 2006-09 Executive Committee Member, Society of Labor Economists, 2012-14 Member, National Statistics Council, Statistics Canada, 2005- Member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Education and Adult Learning, Human Resources Development Canada, 2000-2002 Member of the Board of the Canadian Employment Research Forum, 1992-2001
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY Founding Co-Editor, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2007-2013 Associate Editor, American Economic Review, 2004-2007 Associate Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003-2007 Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2002-2007 Associate Editor, Labour Economics, 2006-2007 Co-editor, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2003-2005 Co-editor, Journal of Labor Economics, 1999 - 2003 Editorial Board Member, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2001-2003 Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2001 –2003 Editorial Adviser, Canadian Journal of Economics, 1997 - 2000
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Occupations, Fields of Study, and Returns to Education”, forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2014
“Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada: An Interprovincial Perspective” (with Nicole Fortin), forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014
“Why are the Relative Wages of Immigrants Declining? A Distributional Approach” (with Brahim Boudarbat), forthcoming in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014
“Canadian Inequality: Recent Developments and Policy Options” (with Nicole Fortin, David Green, Kevin Milligan, and W. Craig Riddell) Canadian Public Policy 38(2), June 2012, 121-45.
“Contract Form, Wage Flexibility and Employment” (with W. Bentley MacLeod and Daniel Parent) American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings) 102(3), May 2012, 526-31.
“Wage Inequality: A Comparative Perspective” Australian Bulletin of Labour 37 (1), 2011, 2-32.
“Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics” (with David S. Lee), Journal of Economic Literature 48(2), June 2010, 281-355.
“The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005” (with Brahim Boudarbat and Craig Riddell), Canadian Public Policy 36(1), March 2010, 63-89.
“Unconditional Quantile Regressions” (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin), Econometrica 77(3), May 2009, 953-973
“Performance Pay and Wage Inequality” (With Bentley MacLeod and Daniel Parent), Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(1), February 2009, 1-49
“L’évolution des inégalités dans les pays industrialisés: le point sur la situation” Actualité Économique 84(3), September 2008, 1-23.
“Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice” (with Guido Imbens), Journal of Econometrics 142(2), February 2008, 807-828.
“Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach” (with Kevin Milligan), Journal of Econometrics 142(2), February 2008, 615-635.
“The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality” Journal of Population Economics, 21(1), January 2008, 21-48.
“The Impact of Unionization on the Incidence of and Sources of Payment for Training in Canada” (with David Green), Empirical Economics 32(2-3), May 2007, 465-489.
“Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill?”, American Economic Review 96(3), June 2006, 461-98.
“Postsecondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality,” American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings) 96(2), May 2006, 195-199.
“Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination," (with Robert Gibbons, Lawrence Katz, and Daniel Parent), Journal of Labor Economics 23, (October 2005) 681-724
“Unions and Wage Inequality” (with David Card and Craig Riddell), Journal of Labor Research, Fall 2004, v. 25, iss. 4, pp. 519-62. (symposium on “What Do Unions Do – A Retrospective After Two Decades”)
“Decomposing Wage Distributions: a Unified Approach” Canadian Journal of Economics 35 (4), November 2002, 646-88.
"Alcohol, Marijuana, and American Youth: the Unintended Consequences of Government Regulation," (with John DiNardo), Journal of Health Economics 20, November 2001, pp. 991- 1010.
“Draft Avoidance and College Attendance: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War” (with David Card) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 91, May 2001, pp. 97-102.
"Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis" (with David Card), Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, May 2001, pp. 705-46.
"Education, Earnings, and the Canadian G.I. Bill"(with David Card), Canadian Journal of Economics 34, May 2001, pp. 313-344.
"Supply Side Hysteresis: The Case of Unemployment Insurance in Canada," (with W. Bentley MacLeod), Journal of Public Economics 78, October 2000, 139-70.
"What is Happening in the Youth Labour Market in Canada?" (with Paul Beaudry and Daniel Parent), Canadian Public Policy 26, July 2000, S59-S83.
"Are Women's Wage Gains Men's Losses? A Distributional Test" (with Nicole Fortin), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 90, May 2000, 456-460.
"Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France" (with David Card and Francis Kramarz), Canadian Journal of Economics 32, August 1999, pp. 843-877
"The Evolution of the Female Participation Rate in Canada, 1976-1994: A Cohort Analysis"(with Paul Beaudry), Canadian Business Economics 7, May 1999, pp. 57-70
"Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions, and the Gender Gap" (with Nicole Fortin) Journal of Human Resources 33, Summer 1998, pp. 610-643.
"Estimating the Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality in a Panel Data Model with Comparative Advantage and Non-Random Selection," Journal of Labor Economics 16, April 1998, pp. 261- 291.
"Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada and the United States: Do Institutions Explain the Difference?" (with John DiNardo) Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50, July 1997, pp. 629-651.
"Choix Occupationnels et offre de travail lorsque les salaires sont fonction du nombre d'heures de travail"(french version of "The Estimation of Occupational Choices when Wages Depend on Hours of Work"), Actualité Économique 73, March-June-September 1997, pp. 99-126.
"Institutional Changes and Wage Inequality: Is there a Linkage?" (with Nicole Fortin), Journal of Economic Perspective, Spring 1997, pp. 75-96.
"Recent Trends in the Economic Status of North American Youth" (with David Card), Industrial Relations Research Association 49th Annual Proceedings, 1997, pp. 98-105.
"Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials" (with David Card), Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 74, No. 2, October 1996, pp. 319-361.
"Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semi-Parametric Approach" (with John DiNardo and Nicole Fortin), Econometrica 64, September 1996, pp. 1001- 1044.
"Le chômage des années 1980: que nous apprennent les comparaisons internationales?" (with Paul Beaudry) french version of "Unemployment in the 1980s: Learning from International Comparisons," Actualité Économique 72, September 1996, pp. 291-304.
"Labor Market Institutions and Gender Differences in Wage Inequality" (with Nicole Fortin), Industrial Relations Research Association 48th Annual Proceedings, 1996, pp. 28-36.
"Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Wage Differentials: A Longitudinal Analysis," (with David Card) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 84, May 1994, pp. 29- 33.
"The Effect of Taxes on Labor Supply in the Underground Economy," (with B. Fortin and P. Fréchette) American Economic Review 84, March 1994. pp. 231-254.
"The Effects of Product Market Competition on Collective Bargaining Agreements: The Case of Foreign Competition in Canada," (with J. Abowd) Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, November 1993, pp. 983-1014.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census” (with W. Craig Riddell), forthcoming in David Green and France St-Hilaire, eds., Inequality in Canada : Driving Forces, Outcomes and Policy, IRPP, 2015
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Social Sciences (with David S. Lee), forthcoming in Henning Best and Christof Wolf, eds., Regression Analysis and Causal Inference, Sage, 2014.
Les inégalités salariales entre les immigrants et les natifs au Québec (with Brahim Boudarbat), in Marcelin Joanis, Luc Godbout et Jean-Yves Duclos, eds., Le Québec économique 2012, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2013, pp. 383-409
L’inégalité au Québec : Évolution récente et options en matière de politiques (with Nicole Fortin, David Green, Kevin Milligan, and W. Craig Riddell), in Marcelin Joanis, Luc Godbout et Jean-Yves Duclos, eds., Le Québec économique 2012, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2013, pp. 253-80.
“Decomposition Methods in Economics” (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin), in D. Card and O. Ashenfelter, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, 4th Edition, Elsevier North Holland, 2011, pp. 1-102.
“What Do We Really Know about Changes in Wage Inequality?”, in K. Abraham, M. Harper, and J. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, University of Chicago Press, 2010, pp. 17-59.
“Recent Trends in Wage Inequality and the Wage Structure in Canada,” (with Brahim Boudarbat and W. Craig Riddell), in D. Green and J. Kesselman (eds.), Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, UBC Press, 2006, pp. 269-306.
“The Mincer Equation Thirty Years after Schooling, Experience, and Earnings,” in S. Grossbard (ed.) Jacob Mincer, A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics, Springer Verlag, 2006, pp. 127-145.
“Trade Liberalization and the Labour Market”, in R. Harris and T. Lemieux (eds.) Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages, University of Calgary Press for Industry Canada, 2005, pp. 119-46.
“Overview of the Volume”, in R. Harris and T. Lemieux (eds.) Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages, University of Calgary Press for Industry Canada, 2005, pp. 1-21.
“Labor Market Reforms and Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States” (with Amanda Gosling), in R. Blundell, D. Card, and R. Freeman (eds.) Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2004, pp. 275-312
“Unions and the Wage Structure” (with David Card and Craig Riddell), in John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel (eds.) The International Handbook of Trade Unions, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003, 246-92.
“The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings in Canada,” in A. Sweetman and P. de Broucker (eds.), Towards Evidence-Based Policy for Canadian Education, Statistics Canada and John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen’s University, 2002, page 105-116.
"Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?" (with David Card), in J. Gruber (ed.) An Economic Analysis of Risky Behavior Among Youth, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2001, pp. 439-482.
“Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: A Critical Assessment and Some New Evidence for Canada” (with Jean Farès), in A. Crawford (ed.) Proceedings of the Bank of Canada Conference on Price Stability and the Long Run Target for Monetary Policy, 2001, pp. 3-48.
"Income Redistribution in Canada: Minimum Wages versus other Policy Instruments" (with Nicole Fortin) in W.C. Riddell and F. St-Hilaire (eds.) Public Policies in a Labour Market in Transition, IRPP 2000, pp. 211-247.
"Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American Youth" (with David Card) in D. Blanchflower and R. Freeman (eds.) Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, University of Chicago Press and NBER, 2000, pp. 171-213.
"Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States" (with John Abowd, Francis Kramarz, and David Margolis) in D. Blanchflower and R. Freeman (eds.) Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, University of Chicago Press and NBER, 2000, pp. 427-72.
"Public versus Private Provision of Worker's Benefits: Are Spanish Underground Workers and American Uncovered Workers In the Same Situation?" (with Sara de la Rica), in R. Blank (ed.) Social Protection and Economic Flexibility: Is There a Tradeoff?, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1994, pp. 265-299.
"Unions and Wage Inequality in Canada and in the United States," in D. Card et R. Freeman (eds.) Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1993, pp. 69-107.
"The Effects of International Trade on Collective Bargaining Outcomes: a Comparison of the United States and Canada,"(with John Abowd), in J. Abowd and R. Freeman eds. Immigration, Trade, and Labor Markets, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1991, pp. 343-367.
WORKING PAPERS
“Weak Identification in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs” (with Vadim Marmer and Donna Feir), January 2014, (conditionally accepted, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics).
“Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States” (with Florian Hoffmann), October 2014 (revision resubmitted)
“Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure” (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin), unpublished manuscript, revised August 2013 (second revision requested)
“Performance Pay and the Autocovariance Structure of Earnings and Hours” (with Daniel Parent and W. Bentley MacLeod), unpublished manuscript, October 2012
“Foreign Education and The Earnings Gap Between Immigrants and Canadian-born Workers” (with Nicole Fortin and Javier Torres), unpublished manuscript, March 2012
“Minimum Wages and the Joint Distribution Employment and Wages”, unpublished manuscript, October 2011
“Decomposing Wage Distributions: Estimation and Inference” (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin), unpublished manuscript, December 2005
“Population aging and human capital investment by youth” (with Nicole Fortin), unpublished manuscript, June 2005
“Did Draft Avoidance Raise College Attendance during the Vietnam War?” Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 46, UC Berkeley, February 2002.
"Globalisation, Unions, and Labor Market Rents", unpublished manuscript, April 1998.
"Job Switchers, Dual Job Holders, and Union Wage Differences," unpublished manuscript, April 1991.
BOOKS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
Labour Market Economics, 7th Edition (with D. Benjamin, M. Gunderson, and W.C. Riddell), Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2012, 600 pages.
“The Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Applications” (co-editor with Guido Imbens), Journal of Econometrics 142(2), February 2008, 240 pages
Labour Market Economics, 6th Edition (with D. Benjamin, M. Gunderson, and W.C. Riddell), Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2007, 636 pages.
Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages (co-editor with Richard Harris), University of Calgary Press for Industry Canada, 2005, 643 pages
L'économie souterraine au Québec: mythes et réalités (with Bernard Fortin, Gaétan Garneau, Guy Lacroix, and Claude Montmarquette), Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1996, 114 pages.
BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
“For Equality, Education Matters” Review of “The Race Between Education and Technology” by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Science 321(5897), September 2008, p. 1779
Review of: “The Paradox of American Unionism” by Seymour M. Lipset and Noah M. Meltz, Journal of Economic Literature 42, September 2007, pp. 761-63.
Review of: "Forging Business-Labour Partnerships: The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada" edited by M. Gunderson and A. Sharpe, Journal of Economic Literature 34, June 1999, pp. 691-92.
Comments on "Unemployment and Labor Force Attachment: A Multistate Analysis of Nonemployment" by Stephen Jones and Craig Riddell, in the Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 152-55.
Review of "Aspect of Labour Market Behaviour: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp" edited by Louis N. Christofides, E. Kenneth Grant, and Robert Swidinski, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 50, January 1997, pp. 356-57.
Review of "Differences and Changes in Wage Structures" edited by R. Freeman and L. Katz, Journal of Economic Literature 34, September 1996, pp. 1369-71.
Review of "The Economics of Earnings" by Polachek and Siebert, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 48, January 1995, pp. 362-363.
"Comments on Gueron's and Rydén's Papers" in E. Reynolds (ed.) Income Security in Canada: Changing Needs, Changing Means, Montreal: IRPP, 1993, pp. 203-210.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Special Issue Editors' Introduction: The Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Applications” (with Guido Imbens), Journal of Econometrics 142(2), February 2008, 611-614.
"Disparités de revenu et croissance de l'emploi: y-a-t'il un <
"Le chômage et le travail au noir," Policy Option / Options Politiques, July/August 1996, pp. 69- 72.
Introduction (in french) to the Canadian Economics Association 1994 Annuals (special issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics, June 1996).
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Program chair and conference organizer, Canadian Economic Association Meetings, HEC Montreal, May 31 – June 2 2013
Program committee member, Norface Migration Network Conference on “Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers”, London, England, April 10-13 2013
Program committee member, Norface Migration Network Conference on “Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge”, London, April 6-9 2011
Program committee member, Canadian Econometric Study Group, Vancouver, October 21-23 2010
Program committee member, Society of Labor Economists Meeting, London, June 17-19 2010
Program committee member, North-American Econometric Society Summer Meeting, Boston, June 4-7, 2009
Co-organizer (with Steve Jones and Michael Smith) of the CLSRN workshop on “Labour Market Adjustment”, McGill University, September 27-28, 2007
Co-organizer (with Nicole Fortin and Craig Riddell) of the RDC-TARGET conference “Education, Training, and the Evolving Workplace”, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, May 12-13, 2006
Co-organizer (with Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston) of the CReAM-TARGET conference “Immigration: Impacts, Integration, and Intergenerational Issues”, University College London, March 29-31, 2006
Organizer or co-organizer of various TARGET workshops and conferences (2003-2007)
Co-organizer (with David Card) of the workshop “Experimental and Non-Experimental Evaluations of Peer Group and Other Effects”, Banff, April 25-27 2004
Co-organizer (with David Card) of the workshop “The Regression Discontinuity Method in Economics”, Banff, May 16-17 2003
Co-organizer (with Michael McCracken and Tom Siedule) of the CERF EI Evaluation Conference, Ottawa, February 5-6 1999.
Program committee member, North-American Econometric Society Summer Meetings, Montreal, June 25-28 1998
Co-organizer (with Paul Beaudry) of the workshop "Unemployment in the 1990s", CIRANO, July 10-21, 1995.
Co-organizer (with Bentley MacLeod, Pierre-Yves Crémieux, and Marc Van Audenrode) of the 5th Canadian Labour Economics Conference, Université de Montréal, June 5-7 1995.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE UBC: PhD Research Seminar, M.A. Applied Economics, PhD Applied Econometrics, M.A. Econometrics, Graduate Labor Economics, Undergraduate Labor Economics
Université de Montréal: Graduate Labor Economics; Undergraduate Labor Economics, Income Distribution, and Applied Econometrics.
MIT: Graduate Labor Economics, Undergraduate Labor Economics, Undergraduate Thesis Seminar.
Princeton University (Teaching Assistant): Introductory Macroeconomics, Graduate Econometrics.
MAJOR GRANTS AND RESEARCH CONTRACTS
Bank of Canada Fellowship, January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2018
Wages, occupations, and fields of study (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-2011-0604, April 1, 2011 – March 31, 2014
Migration: integration, impact and integration (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 867-2009-0001, August 4, 2009 – August 3, 2013 (grant under the NORFACE Transnational Program)
The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-2007-1974, April 1, 2007 – March 31, 2010
Globalization, Technological Revolutions, and Education (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (major collaborative research grant with 17 other researchers), October 1, 2002 – September 30, 2007.
Did Inequality Stop Growing in the 1990s? (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-2002-0298, May 1, 2002 - April 30, 2007.
Education of American Youth: A Cohort-Based Perspective (with David Card, PI), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1 R01 HD39921-01, July 1, 2001-June 30, 2004
Education, Earnings, and Youth Labour Markets (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-99-0930, May 1, 1999 - April 30, 2002.
Crise de l'emploi et disparités croissantes de salaires: perspectives internationales et historiques (PI) (with Nicole Fortin, Daniel Parent, and Michael Huberman), Fonds FCAR-98-ER-2843 (soutien aux équipes de recherche), June 1, 1997 - May 31, 2000.
Wages, Employment, and Institutional Rigidities (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-96-0651, May 1, 1996 - April 30, 1999.
Les institutions du marché du travail et la distribution de l'emploi et des salaires (PI), Fonds FCAR 95-NC-1386, June 1, 1994 - May 31, 1997
Politiques Publiques, institutions et revenus de travail (with Francois Vaillancourt (PI), Kathy Cannings, Jean-Michel Cousineau, and Nicole Fortin), Fonds FCAR (soutien aux équipes de recherche), June 1, 1993 - May 31, 1996
Labour Market Institutions and Welfare Inequality: A Comparative Approach (PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-93-0550, May 1, 1993 - April 30, 1996.
Unemployment Insurance and Dynamic Work Incentives (with Bentley MacLeod), Employment and Immigration Canada, Contract 9109-3-0001, March 1, 1993 - October 30, 1993.
Member of the Equality, Security and Community project, (Jon Kesselman PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada MCRI, 1998-2003.
Member of the Western Research Network on Education and Training (Jane Gaskell PI), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1996 - 2001.
PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
“Occupations, Fields of Study, and Returns to Education” Presidential Address, Meetings of the Canadian Economic Association, Vancouver, May 31 2014 TASKS Conference on “Changing Tasks – Consequences for Inequality”, Nuremberg, Germany, May 27 2014
“Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census” IRPP-CLSRN Conference on “Inequality in Canada: Driving Forces, Outcomes, and Policy”, Ottawa, Feb 24 2014
“Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada: An Interprovincial Perspective” ASDEQ Forum on Inequality, Quebec City, June 3 2014 IRPP-CLSRN Conference on “Inequality in Canada: Driving Forces, Outcomes, and Policy”, Ottawa, Feb 24 2014 UBC Okanagan, January 31 2014
“Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States” Bank of Canada Fellowship Exchange, Ottawa, September 17 2014 Brigham Young University, March 7 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings, Economic Outlook Luncheon, Montreal, QC, August 6 2013 NBER Conference on “The Labor Market in the Aftermath of the Great Recession”, Cambridge, MA, May 16 2013.
“Skill Mix, Inequality, and Immigration Impacts” NORFACE Conference “Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers”, London, England, April 13 2013
“Occupations, Field of Study, and Substitution across Skill Groups” Workshop on Skills, Tasks, and Human Capital, University of Western Ontario, London, October 12 2012
“Skills, Occupation, and Wage Inequality” Boston University, Boston MA, April 23 2013 Yale University, New Haven CT, November 14 2012
“Performance Pay and the Autocovariance Structure of Earnings and Hours” Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, April 30 2014 UC Riverside, March 12 2014 Brigham Young University, March 7 2014 Emory University, February 27 2014 Duke University, February 26, 2014 University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, April 30 2013 Boston University, Boston MA, April 24 2013 Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, April 9 2013 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, April 8 2013 Paris School of Economics (Paris 1), March 28 2013 Toulouse School of Economics, March 26 2013 GREQAM, Université Aix-Marseille, March 25 2013 London School of Economics, March 22 2013 University of Manchester, March 21 2013 University College London, March 14 2013 Washington University St. Louis, March 1 2013 Harvard Labor/Public Seminar, Feb 7 2013 STATA/Texas Empirical Micro Conference, Nov 30 2012 UC Irvine, November 20 2012 Labor-public seminar, Yale University, November 15 2012 Applications workshop, University of Chicago, October 8 2012
“Foreign Education and The Earnings Gap Between Immigrants and Canadian-born Workers” University of Ottawa, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Dec 7 2012 Applied micro lunch, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, October 16 2012 Séminaire de macroéconomie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, September 20 2012 NORFACE Conference, Mannheim, Germany, March 30 2012
“Contract Form, Wage Flexibility and Employment” Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Chicago, January 6 2012
“Education et changement dans les inégalités économiques” Montréal, Conférence “Statistiques sociales, pauvreté et exclusion sociale perspectives québécoises, canadiennes et internationals”, Nov 29, 2011
“Minimum Wages and the Joint Distribution Employment and Wages” University of Toronto, October 11 2012 University of Oregon, May 11 2012 Southern Methodist University, April 13 2012 IRVAPP Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, April 2 2012 Northwestern University, Kellogg School, Evanston IL, March 28 2012 Queens’ University, Kingston, Ontario, March 6 2012 MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 5 2011 University of California, Los Angeles, October 19 2011 University of California, San Diego, October 17 2011
“Occupations and Wages” Albert Rees Lecture, Society of Labor Economists Meeting, Vancouver, April 30, 2011
“Wage Inequality in Canada” New Frontiers seminar, University of Toronto (Scarborough campus), Dec 6 2013 CIFAR program on Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being Program Meeting, Montreal, May 16, 2013 Harvard University, Lecture as part of the Mackenzie King Chair on Canadian Studies, March 10, 2011
“Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics” AAEA Annual Meetings, Seattle, August 13 2012 Conference de l’ASDEQ, Gatineau, Quebec, May 17, 2011 University of Coimbra (three lectures), Coimbra, Portugal, March 18, 2011 University of Calgary (three lectures), February 9-11, 2011
“Language, Field of Study, and Earnings of Immigrants” CReAM workshop on Migration, Development, and Global Issues, London, September 24 2010
“Decomposing Changes in Distributions in the Presence of Covariates: Some Recent Developments” Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance, Rimini, Italy, June 11 2010
“La méthode de régression par discontinuité et l’évaluation des politiques de l’emploi” DARES Conference, Paris, November 24, 2009.
“Decomposition Methods in Economics” Boston University, Boston MA, April 25 2013 CLSRN Summer Institute, HEC Montreal, June 27 2011 University of Coimbra (two lectures), Coimbra, Portugal, March 19, 2011 Handbook of Labor Economics Conference, Berkeley CA, November 7, 2009
“Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, October 29, 2012 Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, April 13 2012 ASSA Annual Meetings (International Economics & Finance Society), Chicago, January 6 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, September 29, 2011 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, June 6th, 2011 Boston College, May 9th, 2011 CEMFI, Madrid, March 31, 2011 University of Chicago, Harris School, March 1 2011 University of California, Davis, November 18, 2010 Asian Conference in Applied Microeconomics, Tokyo, Japan, November 5 2010 Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy, September 21 2010 University of Victoria, September 10 2010 NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 28, 2010 Stanford University, PLEAD seminar, May 18 2010 Columbia University, Applied microeconomics seminar, April 21 2010 Paris School of Economics, Labor/public Seminar, March 12, 2010 Paris II University / ERMES, Labor economics seminar, March 11, 2010 University of Hawaii, Economics Seminar, February 5, 2010 University of Toronto, Labor Economics Seminar, December 4, 2009 University of Ottawa, Labor Economics Seminar, December 3, 2009 Ecole de HEC, Applied Economics Seminar, December 2, 2009 London School of Economics, October 9, 2009 University College London, October 8, 2009 Georgetown University, September 22, 2009 Cornell University, Labor Economics Seminar, Ithaca, NY, September 21, 2009 UC Berkeley, Labor Seminar, September 10, 2009
“Wage Inequality: A Comparative Perspective” Tax time conference, Cambridge, Ontario, April 18 2011 Keith Hancock Lecture, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, March 25 2009 Trevor Swan Distinguished Lecture, ANU, Canberra, Australia, March 23 2009 Economic Society lunch talk, Melbourne, Australia, March 13 2009
“Performance Pay, Wage Flexibility, and Hours of Work” McMaster University, March 11, 2011 European University Institute, Florence, Italy, September 22 2010 University of Maryland, College Park MD, September 23, 2009 NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 23, 2009 Labour Economics Seminar, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, March 26 2009 Economics Seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, March 12 2009 Economics Seminar, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, December 5 2008 Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Brown University, Providence RI, December 4 2008 Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, October 29 2008 Rice-Houston Labor Workshop, Houston TX, October 28, 2008 ESOP Workshop on Wage Inequality, University of Oslo, October 9, 2008
“L’utilisation des données de recensement en économie du travail: un bref aperçu” Data workshop, Centre interuniversitaire québécois de statistiques sociales, Montreal, April 24, 2008
“Population aging and human capital investment by youth” Workshop on Demographic Changes and Policy Implication, Bank of Canada, May 29, 2007
“What Do We Really Know About Changes in Wage Inequality? NBER-CRIW Conference on Labor in the New Economy, Bethesda, Maryland, November 16, 2007 NBER-CRIW pre-conference on Labor in the New Economy, College Park, Maryland, May 17, 2007
“L’évolution des inégalités dans les pays industrialisés: le point sur la situation” Conférence of the Société canadienne de sciences économiques, Québec, Québec, May 16, 2007
“Unconditional Quantile Regressions” Labor and Population Workshop, Yale University, October 20, 2006
“Why are the Relative Wages of Immigrants Declining? A Distributional Approach” 2008 Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, London, England, June 20, 2008 Labor economics seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, April 10 2008 CLSRN Workshop on Immigration, Vancouver, BC, October 13, 2007 International economics seminar, UC Berkeley, April 24, 2007 Workshop of the CIAR program on Social Interactions, Identity, and Well Being, Montreal, September 22 2006
“The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality” Symposium on Inequality, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, October 27, 2006 Meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, Verona, Italy, June 23, 2006 (keynote address) ZEW workshop on “Wage Growth and Mobility: Micro-, Macro- and intergenerational Evidence”, Mannheim, Germany, March 25, 2006 (keynote address)
“Recent trends in earnings inequality in Canada and other countries” Department of Finance (Canada) conference series, Ottawa, May 25, 2006
“Post-secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality” Economics seminar, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, March 28, 2006 Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association, Boston, January 6, 2006
“Decomposing Wage Distributions: Estimation and Inference” Séminaire d’économie du travail, UQAM, Montréal, April 25, 2008 Labor seminar, UC Irvine, November 6, 2007 NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 24 2007 Meetings of the Canadian Economic Association, Montreal, May 27, 2006 Applied microeonomics seminar, University College London, December 8, 2005 Canadian Econometric Study Group, SFU, Vancouver, October 21 2005 Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics (SITE), Stanford University, July 12, 2005
“Pay for Performance and Wage Inequality” CIFAR meeting (Social Interactions, Identity, and Well Being), March 8, 2008 Labor seminar, UC San Diego, November 5, 2007 UC Merced Earnings Inequality Conference, Bass Lake, CA, September 6, 2007 UCLA labor economics workshop, Los Angeles, CA, February 21, 2007 NBER Labor Studies Fall Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 17, 2006 Iowa State University, Economics Seminar, Ames, Iowa, November 6, 2006 IZA workshop on “Institutions and the Employment Relationship”, Bonn, Germany, July 5, 2006 Labour seminar, London School of Economics, December 9, 2005 Séminaire d’économie, Université Paris 1, December 5, 2005 Murray Johnson Conference, University of Texas, Austin, May 1 2005
“Is Canada the Leader in Higher Education?” TARGET Conference, Vancouver, February 10 2005
“La méthode RD et l’évaluation des politiques publique” CIRPEE Conference (keynote speaker), Knowlton, Quebec, October 16 2004
“Canadian Emigration to the United States” TARGET Outreach, Ottawa, April 16, 2004
“Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach” Columbia University, Applied Micro Seminar, September 28, 2005 CIAR workshop on Social Groups, Economic Behaviour, and Human Welfare, Toronto, June 13, 2004 BIRS workshop, Banff, April 27 2004 UC Berkeley, Labor lunch, March 12 2004
“Recent Trends in Wage Inequality and the Wage Structure in Canada” TARGET Labour Workshop, November 1st, 2003.
“Residual Wage Inequality: A Re-examination” Bank of Italy, Seminar, March 22 2005 Princeton University, Labor Economics Seminar, September 29 2004 TARGET Conference, Vancouver, June 11, 2004 University of California, Berkeley, Departmental Seminar March 31 2004 University of California, Departmental Seminar, Santa Barbara, February 20 2004 McGill University, Departmental Seminar, December 9 2003 University of Calgary, Departmental Seminar, November 14 2003 University of California at Davis, Applied Microeconomics Seminar, October 13 2003 Northwestern University, Labor/Public Finance Seminar, October 9 2003 Columbia University, Applied Microeconomics Seminar, October 8 2003 Society for Labor Economics Annual Conference, Toronto, September 27 2003 NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 29 2003
“Minimum Wages, Institutions, and Youth Labor Markets” World Bank’s Youth Employment Workshop, Washington DC, June 3 2003
“Trade Liberalization and the Labour Market” Industry Canada-HRDC Conference on North American Integration, Montreal, November 21, 2002
“Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Differences” University of Western Ontario, March 28, 2003 University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, February 28, 2003 University of Victoria, October 25, 2002
“Decomposing Wage Distributions: a Unified Approach” Meetings of the Canadian Economic Association (Innis Lecture), Calgary, May 31, 2002
“The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings in Canada” Statistics Canada, WRNET-John Deutch Institute conference on Empirical Issues in Education in Canada, Ottawa, November 23, 2001
“Technology, Skills, and Wage Inequality” Industry Canada, Distinguished Speakers Series, Ottawa, November 22, 2001
“Nonparametric methods for decomposing distributions” Statistics Canada Methodology Seminar, Ottawa, November 9, 2001
“The Impact of Unionization on the Incidence of and Sources of Payment for Training in Canada: A Study Based on the Adult Education and Training Survey” ZEW conference on Education and Training, Mannheim, Germany, March 18 2005 HRDC Workshop on Adult Education and Training, Hull, Quebec, May 2001
“Draft Avoidance and College Attendance: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War” WRNET Annual Conference, March 31 2001 Meetings of the American Economic Association, New Orleans, January 2001
“Labor Market Reforms and Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States” MIT Labor/Harvard Development seminar, MIT, February 20, 2002 Labor Economics seminar, Princeton University, November 7, 2001 Labor economics seminar, UC Santa Barbara, April 18 2001 Labor economics seminar, UCLA, April 17 2001 Labor economics seminar, UC Berkeley, March 8 2001 ESC Workshop, UBC, December 12, 2000 NBER-CEP-IFS Conference “Creating a Premier League Economy”, CEP, London, December 9, 2000
“Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: A Critical Assessment and Some New Evidence for Canada” CLIN Conference, Burlington, Ontario, September 2000 Bank of Canada Conference on Price Stability and the Long Run Target for Monetary Policy, Ottawa, June 2000
“Schooling, Experience, and Earnings: Twenty Five Years of ‘Mincer Equations’ ” Journées de la microéconomie appliquée, Université Laval, June 2000
" Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?" WRNET Summer Workshop, UBC, August 2000 Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Vancouver, June 2000 NBER Conference "An Economic Analysis of Risky Behavior Among Youth", South Sea Plantation Island, Florida, December 10, 1999
"What is Happening in the Youth Labour Market in Canada?" WRNET Workshop, Vancouver, August 1999 CSLS/Finance/HRDC Conference on Structural Unemployment, Ottawa, April 22 1999
"Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis" Economics Seminar, Simon Fraser University, October 1999 WRNET Workshop, Vancouver, August 1999 NBER Summer Institute 1999, July 27, 1999 Montreal Econometrics Workshop, April 15, 1999. Université Laval, March 18, 1999
"Education, Earnings, and the Canadian G.I. Bill" University of British Columbia, October 14, 1998 National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998 Summer Institute, July 28, 1998 MIT, Labor Economics Seminar, May 5, 1998
"The Evolution of the Female Participation Rate in Canada, 1976-1994: A Cohort Analysis" Canadian Economic Association, 1998 Meetings at the University of Ottawa, May 30, 1998. Human Resources Development Canada, Applied Research Seminar, Ottawa, May 14, 1998. Société canadienne de sciences économiques, Quebec City, May 8, 1998 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Séminaire du LAMIA, March 11, 1998
"Supply Side Hysteresis: The Case of Unemployment Insurance in Canada," Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 23, 1998. Canadian Economic Association, 1994 Meetings at the University of Calgary, June 11, 1994. Human Resources Development Canada, UI Evaluation Seminar, Ottawa, May 9, 1994. Dalhousie University, Economics Seminar, April 6 1994.
"Globalisation, Unions, and Labor Market Rents" NBER Conference on Labor Markets and Trade, May 1, 1998
"Les jeunes et le marché du travail" Human Resources Development Canada, Applied Research Seminar, , Ottawa, May 14, 1998. CIRANO, Rencontre-CIRANO, "Les jeunes et le marché du travail", April 28, 1998.
"Disparités de revenu et croissance de l'emploi: y-a-t'il un <
"Are Women's Wage Gains Men's Losses? A Distributional Test" Meetings of the American Economic Association, Boston, January 2000. University of Washington, Economics Seminar, May 16, 1997. University of Toronto, Labour Economics Seminar, March 15, 1996.
"Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American Youth" University of British Columbia, Labour Economics Seminar, May 15, 1997 NBER Conference on Youth Employment and Unemployment, Graylyn Conference Center, Winston-Salem, North-Carolina, December 14, 1996. UC Santa Cruz, Economics Seminar, October 29, 1996. NBER Pre-Conference on Youth Employment and Unemployment, Universität Konstanz, Germany, May 18, 1996.
"Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France" University of Southern California, Development Seminar, April 30, 1997. Stanford University, Labor Seminar, November 7, 1996. UC San Diego, Microeconomics Seminar, October 24, 1996. Boston College, Economics Seminar, April 25, 1996. UQAM, Labour Economics Seminar, November 27, 1995. UBC, Labour Economics Seminar, October 23, 1995. Université de Montréal, Labour Economics Seminar, March 1995.
"Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: A Semi-Parametric Approach" Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota, April 4, 1997. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1994 Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 28 1994. University of Guelph, Economics Seminar, March 31 1994. University of Michigan, Labor Economics Seminar, March 18 1994. Cornell University, Labor Economics Seminar, March 7 1994. 1994 Winter Meetings of the North American Econometric Society, Boston, MA, January 5 1994.
"Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions, and the Gender Gap" University of California at Berkeley, Labor Economics Seminar, March 18, 1997. UC Los Angeles, Labor/Population Seminar, October 22, 1996. Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Workshop, University of Wisconsin Madison, June 27, 1996. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995 Summer Institute, July 27, 1995 Institute for Fiscal Studies, Conference on Income Policy and the Distribution of Income, London, England, July 11, 1995
"Institutional Changes and Wage Inequality: Is there a Linkage?" Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Economics Seminar, February 3, 1997.
"Recent Trends in the Economic Status of North American Youth" American Economic Association / Industrial Relations Research Association, 1997 Meetings in New Orleans, LA, January 4, 1997.
"Labor Market Institutions and Gender Differences in Wage Inequality" American Economic Association / Industrial Relations Research Association, 1996 Meetings in San Francisco, CA, January 5, 1996. Université de Montréal, Labour Economics Seminar, December 5, 1995.
"Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States" National Bureau of Economic Research, Franco-American Seminar, July 28, 1995 CIRANO, Summer Workshop on Unemployment, Montreal, July 20, 1995
"Learning, Comparative Advantage, and the Nature of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials," Dartmouth College, Economics Seminar, September 1994. University of Maryland, Labor Economics Workshop, College Park, MD, March 5, 1992. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, January 27 1992. Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, New Orleans, LA, January 4 1992.
"Changing Wage Structure and Black-White Wage Differentials: A Longitudinal Analysis," 1994 Meetings of the American Economic Association, Boston, MA, January 4 1994.
"Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada and the United States: Do Institutions Explain the Difference?" Université Laval, Séminaire d'économie, Sainte-Foy, Québec, November 11 1993. University of Waterloo, Microeconomics workshop, Waterloo, Ontario, October 7 1993. McMaster University, Microeconomics workshop, Hamilton, Ontario, October 6 1993. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993 Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, July 27 1993.
"Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials" European Meetings of the Econometric Society, 1993 Meetings at Uppsala University, Sweden, August 25, 1993. National Bureau of Economic Research, Spring Meeting of the Labor Studies Group, Cambridge, MA, February 26, 1993
"Unions and Wage Inequality in Canada and in the United States," Canadian Economic Association, 1993 Meetings at Carleton University, June 5, 1993.
"The Effects of Product Market Competition on Collective Bargaining Agreements: The Case of Foreign Competition in Canada," University of Toronto, Fourth Canadian Labour Economics Conference, May 16, 1993 Université de Montréal, Séminaire de microéconomie, February 1993.
"Public versus Private Provision of Worker's Benefits: Are Spanish Underground Workers and American Uncovered Workers In the Same Situation?" National Bureau of Economic Research, Conference Social Protection and Economic Flexibility: Is there a Trade-off ?, London, England, December 15 1992. National Bureau of Economic Research, Pre-Conference on the Trade-off between Social Protection and Economic Flexibility, Cambridge, MA, January 23 1992.
"Estimating the Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality in a Panel Data Model with Comparative Advantage and Non-Random Selection," Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Séminaire de René Roy, Paris, France, March 23, 1992 National Bureau of Economic Research, 1991 Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, August 1991.
"Alcohol, Marijuana, and American Youth: the Unintended Consequences of Government Regulation," Harvard University, Labor Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, February 19, 1992.
"The Estimation of Occupational Choices when Wages Depend on Hours of Work" Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society, Barcelona, Spain, August 1990
"Job Switchers, Dual Job Holders, and Union Wage Differences," Harvard University, Labor Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, February 1991. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Labor Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, September 1990. University of California at Los Angeles, Labor Economics Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, May 1990. Queen's University, Canadian Labour Economics Conference, Kingston, Ontario, March 1990.
"The Effect of Taxes on Labor Supply in the Underground Economy," Harvard University, Labor Economics Workshop, February 1990. National Bureau of Economic Research, Tax Program Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 1989. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Public Finance Seminar, Cambridge, MA, September 1989.
SUPERVISION AND MEMBERSHIP OF PhD THESIS COMMITTEES Daniel Parent, Ph.D. 1995 (U. of Montreal) Jean Farès, Ph.D. 1998 (U. of Montreal) Lars Vilhuber, Ph.D. 1999 (U. of Montreal) Stéphanie Lluis, Ph.D. 2001 (U. of Montreal) Brahim Boudarbat, Ph.D. 2003, U. of Montreal) Marko Vujicic, Ph.D. 2003 Michael Coelli, Ph.D. 2005 Tammy Schirle, Ph.D. 2006 Pierre Brochu, Ph.D. 2006 Kazuko Kano, Ph.D. 2007 Ben Sand, Ph.D. 2009 Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Ph.D. 2009 Kelly Foley, Ph.D. 2009 Kim Lehrer, Ph.D. 2009 Javier Torres, Ph.D. 2013 Thomas Fujiwara, Ph.D. 2011 Nishant Chadha, Ph.D 2013 Andrew Hill, Ph.D 2013 Jinwen Xu, PhD expected 2014 Weina Zhou, Ph.D expected 2013 Hugo Jales, Ph.D. expected 2015 Alix Duhaime-Ross, Ph.D. expected 2015 Tzu-Ting Yang, Ph.D. expected 2015 Jonathan Graves, Ph.D. expected 2016 Oscar Becerra, Ph.D. expected 2016
SUPERVISION OF MSc THESES (U. of Montreal) Martine Marleau, (M.Sc. 1993) Grace Kattouf, (M.Sc. 1994) Chantale Beaulieu, (M.Sc. 1994) Mirande Rinfret-Awad, (M.Sc.1994) Caroline De Guire (M.Sc. 1996) Olivier Deschênes (M.Sc. 1996) Elizabeth Reynolds (M.Sc. 1997) Caroline Chapain (M.Sc. 1997) David Bahan (M.Sc. 1999) Jean-Philippe Bouchard (M.Sc. 2000) Annie Beaulieu (M.Sc 2000) Aymeric Dussart (M.Sc. 1999) Olivier Bochet (M.Sc. 2000)