Nicole Fortin
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Nicole Fortin's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of British Columbia
- Masters Economics University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Economics University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicole M. Fortin is a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Columbia, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Economics. Before moving to Vancouver, B.C. in 1999, Fortin taught at Université de Montréal for ten years in her hometown. She was the President of the Canadian Women Economic Network in 2013–2014. Her research focus is placed on three main themes, including the linkage between labour market institutions and wage inequality, issues related to the economic progress of gender equality, as well as contributions to decomposition methods. Notably, Fortin contributed to the ground-breaking research presented in the 2015 World Happiness Report by examining how various factors impact feelings of happiness for individuals, and societal well-being overall, across the globe.
Nicole Fortin's Published Works
Published Works
- Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach (1995) (2979)
- Unconditional Quantile Regressions (2007) (1728)
- Gender Role Attitudes and the Labour-market Outcomes of Women across OECD Countries (2005) (758)
- Institutional Changes and Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage? (1997) (524)
- Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure (2011) (401)
- The Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults in the United States: The Importance of Money versus People (2008) (339)
- Decomposing Wage Distributions using Recentered Influence Function Regressions (2018) (313)
- Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions and the Gender Gap (1996) (188)
- Leaving Boys Behind (2013) (160)
- Canadian Inequality: Recent Developments and Policy Options (2012) (133)
- Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS and the President Appeal of Housewifery (2015) (132)
- Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement (2015) (123)
- Allocation Inflexibilities, Female Labor Supply, and Housing Assets Accumulation: Are Women Working to Pay the Mortgage? (1995) (116)
- Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988 (1999) (105)
- Occupational Gender Segregation and Women's Wages in Canada: An Historical Perspective (2002) (102)
- Higher-Education Policies and the College Wage Premium: Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s (2006) (86)
- Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom (2017) (71)
- Superstition in the Housing Market (2014) (63)
- Greed , Altruism , and the Gender Wage Gap 1 (60)
- Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada: An Interprovincial Perspective (2015) (54)
- Are Women's Wage Gains Men's Losses? A Distributional Test (2000) (50)
- Women's Wages in Women's Work: A U.S./Canada Comparison of the Roles of Unions and "Public Goods" Sector Jobs (1999) (42)
- Gender Role Attitudes and Women’s Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out and the Persistent Appeal of Housewifery (2008) (40)
- The Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults in the United States (2008) (38)
- Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects (2021) (34)
- Rising Tuition and Supply Constraints: Explaining Canada-U.S. Differences in University Enrollment Rates * (2004) (33)
- Comparable Worth in a Decentralized Labour Market: The Case of Ontario (2004) (32)
- Foreign human capital and the earnings gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers (2016) (32)
- The distribution of COVID‐19–related risks (2020) (22)
- Wealth Inequality: Theory, Measurement and Decomposition (2017) (22)
- Young in Class: Implications for Inattentive/Hyperactive Behaviour of Canadian Boys and Girls (2015) (19)
- Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market? (2000) (17)
- Increasing Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap in Canada: Prospects for Convergence (2019) (16)
- Inequality and Changes in Task Prices: Within and between Occupation Effects ☆ (2016) (14)
- Occupational Gender Segregation : Public Policies and Economic Forces (2001) (11)
- Gender Composition and Wages: Why Is Canada Different from the United States? (1998) (8)
- Computer Gaming and the Gender Math Gap: Cross-Country Evidence among Teenagers (2018) (8)
- Gender Differences in Fields of Specialization and Placement Outcomes among PhDs in Economics (2021) (7)
- Decelerating Wage Inequality and Higher Education : Cross – State Evidence from the 1990 s ∗ (2004) (7)
- Air pollution in Montreal: A statistical analysis of sulphur dioxide data (1980) (7)
- Higher Education Policies and Decelerating Wage Inequality: Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s (1990) (7)
- Decomposing Wage Distributions : Estimation and Inference (2005) (5)
- Heterogeneity biases, distributional effects, and aggregate consumption: An empirical analysis using stratified microdata (1995) (5)
- Evaluating the aggregation biases in a production economy : a stochastic approach (1988) (4)
- Comparable Worth Comes to the Private Sector: The Case of Ontario (2000) (4)
- Computer Gaming and Test Scores: Cross-Country Gender Differences Among Teenagers (2016) (4)
- Employee Training in Canada (2009) (2)
- A Unified Theory of Aggregation: Similarity and Separability Reconsidered (1989) (2)
- Labor Market Institutions and Gender Differences in Wage Inequality (1996) (2)
- Borrowing Constraints and Female Labor Supply: Nonparametric and Parametric Evidence of the Impact of Martgage Lending Rules (1993) (2)
- Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting (2022) (1)
- Supplement to 'Unconditional Quantile Partial Eects' Estimation and Testing (2008) (1)
- Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network Working (2008) (0)
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