Thomas Lemieux

Thomas Lemieux is a Canadian economist. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia.

Lemieux was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He received his B.A. in Economics from Université Laval in 1984 and his M.A. in Economics from Queen's University the following year. In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1992. In 1992, he was named an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal. In 1999, Lemieux accepted a faculty position at the University of British Columbia. He has been an associate editor at several economics journals, such as the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Labour Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Review.

A good portion of his research centers around the topic of income inequality. Lemieux also studies econometric methods to analyze the income distribution. He is a fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and the Society of Labor Economists. At the University of British Columbia, Lemieux directs the Team for Advanced Research on Globalization, Education, and Technology. Lemieux has published 40 journal articles and two books on labor economics.

Books

• Labour Market Economics, 7th Edition (with D. Benjamin, M. Gunderson, and W.C. Riddell),

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2012.

• Labour Market Economics, 6th Edition (with D. Benjamin, M. Gunderson, and W.C. Riddell),

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2007.

• Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages (co-editor with Richard Harris),

University of Calgary Press for Industry Canada, 2005.

• 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

Journal articles

• “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: 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.