Our Economics Society presents: Economics Alumni Panel
Curious about career opportunities your economics degree will give you after graduation? UWES is bringing you three brilliant alumni who have used their Economics degree from the University of Waterloo in unique and non-traditional ways, and have advanced in competitive and top-performing industries.
Please join us for the next PhD student seminar with John Baker on "Business Cycles, Immigration and Labour Markets: Analysis of a Policy Experiment."
John Baker is an economics graduate student at the University of Waterloo. His fields of interest are macroeconomics and policy evaluation.
Join the seminar on WebEx.
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo is seeking to fill a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) and tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated (flexible) start date of January 2022. The applicant will be an exceptional Indigenous scholar who has a demonstrated commitment to engaging both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and community members in teaching and research activities and whose work will contribute to one or more of our academic units.
Professor Mikko Packalen and Stanford professor Jayanta Bhattacharya dicuss how policies that depress the world economy put millions at risk in The Spectator.
Read his co-authored op-ed piece with Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Financial Post.
Professor Mikko Packalen outlines why we must be cautious about our expectations of testing in this op-ed for the Financial Post.
See the media relations original article titled, "New model assesses the economic damage of climate change on the Great Lakes" on Waterloo Stories.
Professor Ana Ferrer published an article in the IZA World of Labour. Check out the post titled, "Are married immigrant women secondary workers?" at this website.
Economics Alumna Jue Zhang (PhD '17) has co-authored a COVID paper titled, "Transitions into and out of employment by immigrants during the COVID-19 lockdown and recovery" that was posted by Stats Canada today. The paper examines how immigrants vs Canadian born workers have been affected by the labour market changes. It is a great accomplishment to be featured on such a high profile platform. Congratulations, Jue!
Mikal Skuterud, who researches immigration economics, chatted with Media Relations at UW on the topic of temporary foreign worker programs. You can find the full article, Q and A with the experts: the future of temporary foreign worker programs, on the Waterloo Stories page.