CONTACT INFORMATION 2803 de Cadillac mgauthie@princeton.edu Montreal, Quebec (cell) 514-475-8925 Canada (home) 514-508-3277 H1N 2V5 www.princeton.edu/~mgauthie EDUCATION Princeton University, PhD Candidate in Economics (expected May 2012) Principal Thesis Adviser: Prof. Henry Farber Fields: Labor Economics, Economic Theory, Other courses: Public Finance Université de Montréal, MS Economics, 2006 (with Honors) Université de Montréal, BS Mathematics and Economics, 2005 (with Honors)
FIELDS OF INTEREST Labor Economics, Public Policy, Applied Microeconomics. JOB MARKET PAPER “Find a Job Now, Start Working Later: Does Unemployment Insurance Subsidize Leisure?”
Distorting incentives is a major concern when implementing Unemployment Insurance (UI). In particular, UI benefits tend to decrease job search and increase the reservation wage. Yet, UI could also be prone to moral hazard through another unexplored channel: postponing job start upon finding a job. This paper develops a theoretical job search model that allows for a delayed job start. Then, the extent to which unemployed individuals delay job start after finding a job is assessed using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. I find that the benefits received while delaying job start accounts for 17% of all benefits paid. I find that individuals who accepted an offer before benefit exhaustion delay job start by 3.9 weeks on average, whereas the average delay is respectively 1.8 and 2.3 weeks for those who accepted an offer after exhaustion and for non-recipients. The survival analysis confirms that the delay between job offer and job start is longer when receiving UI benefits after accepting a job, and this finding is robust to controlling for the time of job acceptance as well as personal and job characteristics. It suggests that some individuals take advantage of the availability of UI benefits to postpone job start. PUBLICATION Hunt, Jennifer, and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle. 2010. "How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(2): 31–56. WORKING PAPER “Wage
Effect of Extended Parental Leaves in Canada”, Princeton University. HONORS AND AWARDS Fonds Québecois de Recherche sur la Société et Culture, Graduate Fellowship, 2011-2012 Fondation Desjardins, Doctorate degree bursaries, 2011-2012
Richard A. Lester Fellowship for Industrial Relations, Princeton University, 2010-2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2011 Princeton
Canadian Studies, Summer Fellowship, 2009 and 2011 Princeton University Fellowship, 2006-2011 Fonds Québecois de Recherche sur la Société et Culture, Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Master Fellowship, 2005-2006 André-Raynauld Prize, Université de Montréal, Best GPA-Graduating Student in Economics, 2005 Maurice Bouchard Prize, Université de Montréal, Excellence in Microeconomics, 2005 Lise-Salvas Prize, Université de Montréal, Excellence in Econometrics, 2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant to Prof. Jennifer Hunt, McGill University, Summer 2008 Research Assistant to Prof. Olivier Armantier, Université de Montréal, Summer 2005 Research Assistant to Prof. Gérard Gaudet, Université de Montréal, Summer 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Princeton University-Assistant in Instruction Ethics and Economics (ECO385), Prof. Thomas Leonard, Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 Economics and Public Policy (WWS307), Prof. Elizabeth Bogan, Fall 2009 Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECO302), Prof.Victor Li, Spring 2009 Intermediate Microeconomics (ECO301), Prof. Sylvain Chassang, Fall 2008 Université de Montréal-Assistant in Instruction Introduction to Microeconomics (ECO100), Prof. André Martens, Fall 2005
LANGUAGES English
(fluent), French (native).
CITIZENSHIP Canadian
OTHER INTERESTS Dillon Gym, Princeton University-Spinning Instructor, 2008-2011 Business Co-founder, Trompette & Chou-Fleur (circus performance), 1997-2005
REFERENCES
Professor Henry Farber Professor David S. Lee Industrial Relations Section Industrial Relations Section Firestone Library Firestone Library Princeton University Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (609) 258-4044 Phone: (609) 258-9548 Email: farber@princeton.edu Email: davidlee@princeton.edu
Professor Bo Honoré Department of Economics Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: (609) 258-4014 Email: honore@princeton.edu |
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