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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

Website

http://bit.ly/Dostie_HECpage

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).

article(s)

  • Firms, sorting, and the immigrant–native earnings gap

    The immigrant–native earnings gap is due in part to firm-specific factors resulting from differential sorting of workers into firms

    Benoit Dostie, January 2022
    Recent research has tried to quantify how firms contribute to the immigrant–native earnings gap. Findings from several countries show that around 20% of the gap is due to firm policies that lead to a systematic underrepresentation of immigrants at higher-paying firms. Results also show that some of the closing of the gap over time is attributable to the reallocation of immigrants toward higher-paying employers. This pattern is especially pronounced for immigrants coming from disadvantaged countries, who face several barriers at initial entry, including language difficulties and lack of recognition of their educational credentials.
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  • Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? Updated

    Firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation

    Benoit Dostie, July 2020
    Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the majority of costs for training, shouldn’t they also benefit? Empirical evidence shows that this is in fact the case. Firm-sponsored training leads to higher productivity levels and increased innovation, both of which benefit the firm. Training can also be complementary to, and enhance, other types of firm investment, particularly in physical capital, such as information and communication technology (ICT), and in organizational capital, such as the implementation of high-performance workplace practices.
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