I am an associate professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and an IZA research affiliate. My research interests include macroeconomics and labor economics. My replication material is available at https://github.com/jcrechet.
Publications
Life-cycle worker flows and cross-country aggregate employment, with Etienne Lalé and Linas Tarasonis. Journal of Monetary Economics 103929, vol. 159, April 2026. [Online Appendix].A model of risk sharing in a dual labor market. Journal of Monetary Economics vol. 147, October 2024.
Heterogeneity in labor mobility and unemployment flows across countries. European Economic Review vol. 155, June 2023.
Survey non-response in Covid-19 times: the case of the Labour Force Survey, with Pierre Brochu. Canadian Public Policy 48, no. 3, September 2022. [online appendix] [media: The Globe and Mail]. Runner-up of the 2022 Vanderkamp Prize.
Why don't firms hire young workers during recessions? A replication of Eliza Forsythe (Economic Journal, 2022). With Jing Cui, Barbara Sabada, and Antoine Sawyer. Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol 4, 2025.
Working papers
Screening, churning, and worker flows in a dual labor market, with Félicien Goudou.
Labour-market flows and worker trajectories in Canada during COVID-19, with Pierre Brochu and Zechuan Deng. CLEF WP no. 32 (2020).
Participation in meta replication studies
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research. Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook (and 404 other coauthors). Nature volume 652, pages151–156, 2026.
AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science. Brodeur et al. (288 coauthors). PNAS, 123 (22) e2524747123, 2026.
ECO 7925 - PhD macroeconomic theory II (2 credits, co-taught with Yazid Dissou)
ECO 6120/6520 - Macroeconomic theory IV (2 credits, co-taught with Yazid Dissou)
ECO 6193/6593 - Advanced topics in labour economics
Non-academic
Indice précurseur Desjardins : un outil amélioré pour mieux prévoir les cycles économiques du Québec. Bégin, Hélène, Paul Zaporzan, François Dupuy, Mathieu D'Anjou et Jonathan Créchet. Desjardins-Études économiques (2020).
Du nouveau pour l’Indice précurseur Desjardins. Bégin, Hélène et Jonathan Créchet. Desjardins-Études économiques. (2013).
Other
In May 2022 I organized a workshop in macro-labor at the University of Ottawa (see the program here).