Publications
Plesca, M. & Summerfield, F. 2023. "The productivity benefits of overeducation." Forthcoming in The Journal of Human Capital.
Baruch, Y., Guttormsen, D., Gyoshev, S., Pavkov, T. and Plesca, M. 2023, "Developing new understanding of how global talent flow impact individual and firm performance by using big data". Human Resource Management Journal https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12535
Nick Manuel and Miana Plesca. 2020. " Skill Transferability and the Earnings of Immigrants". The Canadian Journal of Economics November 2020 vol.53 No.4
Antonie, L., Gatto, L., & Plesca, M. 2020. "The selection into full-time and part-time work and the gender wage gap". Atlantic Economic Journal 48(3) 313-326. Best article in AEJ 2020 award.
Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii and Miana Plesca. 2020. “Occupational Mobility and the Returns to Training”, Canadian Journal of Economics doi:10.1111/caje.12421 or Version UofT WP 444
Laura Gatto, Heather Pearce, Miana Plesca, and Luiza Antonie. 2021. “Students with Disabilities: Relationship between Participation Rates and Perceptions of Work-Integrated Learning by Disability Type." International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, v22 n3 p287-306
Laura Gatto, Heather Pearce, Miana Plesca, and Luiza Antonie. 2020. “Work Integrated LearningResources for Students with Disabilities: Are Post-secondary Institutions in Canada Supporting this Demographic to be Career Ready?”, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based LearningDOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-08-2019-0106 ISSN: 2042-3896
Laura Gatto, Darya Heyko, Miana Plesca and Luiza Antonie. 2018. “Gender Wage Gap in the University Sector: A Case Study of All Universities in Ontario, Canada” (with Gatto, L., Heyko, D., Antonie, L.). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Ed.) 10th International Conference on Social Informatics. pp. 242-256
L. Antonie, J. Foxcroft, G. Grewal, N. Narayanan, M. Plesca and R. Ramirez. 2018. "Bias Evaluation of Professors' Reviews," 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Orlando, FL, USA, 2018, pp. 599-606. doi: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00096
Luiza Antonie, Andrew D’Angelo, Gary Grewal and Miana Plesca. 2015. “Analyzing the Gender Wage Gap in Ontario's Public Sector”. ICMLA 2015 IEEE 14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. pp. 465-470, doi: 10.1109/ICMLA.2015.171.
Miana Plesca. 2015. “The Impact of Introducing Mandatory Occupational Licensing”, Modern Economy, 6 (12), 1309.
"The Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.," (with Vincenzo Caponi) Journal of Population Economics, 27(4) (2014), pp. 923 - 960. Lead article. Version IZA DP 7304
"The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions," (with Vincenzo Caponi and Burc Kayahan), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Advances, 10(1) (2010), article 28. Winner of the 2010 B.E. Press Arrow Prize for Junior Economists. Version IZA DP 4042
"A General Equilibrium Evaluation of the Employment Service," Journal of Human Capital, 4(3) (2010), pp. 274 - 329.
"Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?" (with Vincenzo Caponi), Canadian Journal of Economics, 42(3) (2009), pp. 1100-1131. Version IZA DP 2784
"Evaluating Multi-Treatment Programs: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act Experiment," (with Jeffrey Smith), Empirical Economics, 32(2-3) (2007), pp. 491-528.
"Profiling UI claimants to Allocate Employment Services: Evidence and Recommendations for the States," (with Dan Black, Jeffrey Smith, and Suzanne Plourde), U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA), (2003), Occasional Paper ETAOP2003-2.
"Exchange Rate Policy During Transition: the Case of Romania," (with Maria Birsan) in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Zeljko Sevic and Glendal Wright (eds.), July 1997, Sasakawa Peace Foundation.