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I am a Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, where I have been working since 2007. I received my PhD from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. In 2018, I received the Bank of Canada's Governor's Award. |
My main research interests are in macroeconomics broadly, in particular macro-development and structural change, inequality, labor markets, and firm dynamics and entrepreneurship. My work often focusses on heterogeneity and its consequences. To do so, I use quantitative macroeconomic models and large administrative datasets and survey data.
I'm also the PI of a Research Team on Inequality, funded by FRQSC. Team members are Rui Castro, Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, Fabian Lange, Fernando Saltiel (McGill), Raquel Fonseca (UQAM), Baris Kaymak (Cleveland Fed), Joao Galindo da Fonseca and Immo Schott (Université de Montréal), as well as our students and new associate members Davide Alonzo, Laëtitia Renée, Hyejin Park (UdeM), Andrei Munteanu (UQAM).
Recent and upcoming events:
Next Inequality Lab meetings: Oct 20, Dec 4.
Montreal Workshop on Markets with Frictions (co-organizers: Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, Fabian Lange and Fernando Saltiel)
News:
New paper: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Heterogeneous Labor Market Risk (with Fan Yang).
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Forthcoming: Labor market transitions, chapter for the Handbook of Labor Economics (with Rui Castro and Fabian Lange).
NBER WP
New Blog post: VoxDev blog post on The Gender Division of Work Across Countries (with Charles Gottlieb, Cheryl Doss and Douglas Gollin).
Accepted: Selection, Absolute Advantage, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap, Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics.
Accepted: Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the United States, AEJ Macro.
Updated: Skill Supply, Firm Size, and Economic Development (with Charles Gottlieb and Michael Tueting). An earlier version was a background paper for the World Bank's 2024 WDR.
Recently published: Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries, Journal of Monetary Economics 149, January 2025.
New SSHRC Grant for project on Labor market types, skills, and macroeconomic outcomes.
Coming soon: First version of A macroeconomic analysis of heterogeneous labor market risk (with my former PhD student Fan Yang).
Coming soon: First version of Predicting Labor Force Types (with my colleagues Rui Castro and Fabian Lange and PhD students Jiyoung Kim and Jérôme Larivière).
Coming soon: First version of Top Productivity Dynamics (with my former PhD student Alex Amundsen). [slides]
Interested in cross-country data on working from home? Check out my short paper on Working from Home in Developing Countries in the European Economic Review, and the accompanying simulator to explore the data.
You find my CV here, Ideas/RePEc page here, and Google Scholar page here.
Contact information:
McGill University
Department of Economics
855 Sherbrooke St West
Montreal QC
Canada H3A 2T7
markus.poschke [AT] mcgill.ca