If you cannot access one of the papers below and would like a working paper version, email me at miplesca@uoguelph.ca
Baruch, Y., Guttormsen, D., Gyoshev, S., Pavkov, T. and Plesca, M. 2025. "Careers and Labour Market Stability vs. Dynamism: Using Big Data to Optimize Career Trajectories for Better Outcomes". Accepted at Journal of Vocational Behaviour .
Antonie, L., Havaledar, M., and Plesca, M. 2025. "Text Standardization in Public Salary Disclosure Data". Presented at ECML PKDD (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases) 10th workshop on data science for social good.
Baruch, Y., Guttormsen, D., Gyoshev, S., Pavkov, T. and Plesca, M. 2025. "Sub-Sampling at the Researcher's Peril: New Insights Into Sampling Strategy to Avoid Invalid Findings". Human Resource Management Journal p.1-17 https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12602
Antonie, L., Gatto, L., Oloumi, S. and Plesca, M . 2024. “Personality Characteristics Demanded by Employers: Analysis of Job Descriptions From University Job Boards.” in "Big Data Applications in Labor Economics” Research in Labour Economics RLEC Volume 52A p. 213-260 https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-91212024000052A027
Plesca, M. & Summerfield, F. 2023. "The productivity benefits of overeducation." The Journal of Human Capital 17(4) p.463-502.
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 34(4) p. 879-903 https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12535
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, 22(3) p.287-306.
Nick Manuel and Miana Plesca. 2020. " Skill Transferability and the Earnings of Immigrants". The Canadian Journal of Economics 53(4) p.1404-1428.
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) p.313-326. Best article in AEJ 2020 award.
Gueorgui Kambourov, Iourii Manovskii and Miana Plesca. 2020. “Occupational Mobility and the Returns to Training”, The Canadian Journal of Economics doi:10.1111/caje.12421 or Version UofT WP 444
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.
Vincenzo Caponi and Miana Plesca. 2014. "The Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.," Journal of Population Economics, 27(4), pp. 923 - 960. Lead article. Version IZA DP 7304
Vincenzo Caponi, Burc Kayahan and Miana Plesca. 2010. "The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Advances, 10(1), article 28. Winner of the 2010 B.E. Press Arrow Prize for Junior Economists. Version IZA DP 4042
Miana Plesca. 2010. "A General Equilibrium Evaluation of the Employment Service," Journal of Human Capital 4(3), pp. 274 - 329.
Vincenzo Caponi and Miana Plesca. 2009. "Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and University Graduates?" Canadian Journal of Economics, 42(3) pp. 1100-1131. Version IZA DP 2784
Miana Plesca and Jeffrey Smith. "Evaluating Multi-Treatment Programs: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act Experiment," Empirical Economics, 32(2-3) (2007), pp. 491-528.
Dan Black, Jeffrey Smith, Miana Plesca, and Suzanne Plourde. 2003. "Profiling UI claimants to Allocate Employment Services: Evidence and Recommendations for the States," U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Occasional Paper ETAOP2003-2.
Maria Birsan and Miana Plesca. 1997. "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.