I am a Full Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC in Vancouver, BC where I teach courses in labour economics and empirical economics, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I moved to UBC in 1999 after teaching for ten years at the Université de Montréal, in my hometown.

I have three main streams of research.  The first stream revolves around wage inequality and its links to labour market institutions and public policies, including higher education policies.  A second stream includes methodological contributions to decomposition methods, namely the widely used DFL reweighting decomposition methodology and the newer RIF (recentered influence function) regression methodology, both published in Econometrica.  Finally, the third stream focuses on the economic progress of women.  It includes several important substantive contributions on the importance of gender role attitudes for women’s labour market outcomes, the relative importance of money vs. people in women’s choices of career, and the impact of increasing earnings inequality coupled with the underrepresentation of women among top earners as an obstacle to closing the gender pay gap.  Here is my CV.

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