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2014 sshrc impact awards insight award winner thomas lemieux
Thomas Lemieux is a Canadian economist. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia.
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- 2014 sshrc impact awards insight award winner thomas lemieux
- Thomas Lemieux UBC Foreign Education the Earnings Gap
- Biography
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Thomas Lemieux, UBC: Foreign Education & the Earnings Gap
Biography
Lemieux was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He received his B.A. in Economics from Université Laval in 1984 and his M.A. in Economics from Queen's University the following year. In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1992. In 1992, he was named an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal. In 1999, Lemieux accepted a faculty position at the University of British Columbia. He has been an associate editor at several economics journals, such as the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Labour Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Review.
A good portion of his research centres around the topic of income inequality. Lemieux also studies econometric methods to analyze the income distribution. He is a fellow at the Royal Society of Canada and the Society of Labor Economists. At the University of British Columbia, Lemieux directs the Team for Advanced Research on Globalization, Education, and Technology. Lemieux has published 40 journal articles and two books on labor economics.
