Benoit Dostie

HEC Montréal, Canada, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor is an innovative project aimed at making academic research more accessible to a wider audience. I am very happy to be a part of this project

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Full Professor, Department of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal

Research interest

Statistical models for linked employer-employee data, duration models, returns to human capital, firm-sponsored training, matching model of the labor market, firm performance and turnover

Past positions

Director, Institute of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal, 2011–2014; Visiting Fellow, Cornell University ILR School, USA, 2007–2008

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Cornell University, 2001

Selected publications

  • "Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap." Journal of Econometrics (Forthcoming) (with J. Li, D. Card, and D. Parent).

  • "Estimating the impacts of payroll taxes: Evidence from Canadian employer-employee tax data." Canadian Journal of Economics (Forthcoming) (with J. Deslauriers, R. Gagné, and J. Paré).

  • “The impact of training on innovation.” ILR Review 71:1 (2018): 64–87.

  • “Estimating the returns to firm-sponsored on-the-job and classroom training.” Journal of Human Capital 7:2 (2013): 162–189.

  • “Self-selection in migration and returns to unobservables.” Journal of Population Economics 22:4 (2009): 1005–1024 (with P. T. Léger).