2026 Thomas Lemieux: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	68	499	447	8	8	175	41668

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Thomas Lemieux is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research predominantly focuses on social sciences with a strong emphasis on economics, econometrics, and finance. Specifically, their work spans subfields including economics and econometrics, public administration, general health professions, sociology and political science, and education.

The main topics covered in Lemieux's research involve labor market dynamics and wage inequality, labor movements and unions, employment and welfare studies, economic theory and policy, income, poverty, and inequality, firm innovation and growth, as well as innovations in educational methods.

Lemieux's recent publications include the following notable papers:

Initial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Canadian Labour Market, 2020, Canadian Public Policy
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies, 2020, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Unions and wage inequality: The roles of gender, skill and public sector employment, 2020, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages: The Role of Spillover Effects, 2021, Journal of Labor Economics
Gender Differences in Fields of Specialization and Placement Outcomes among PhDs in Economics, 2021, AEA Papers and Proceedings

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lemieux include:

Nicole M. Fortin
David Card
Neil Lloyd
Florian Hoffmann
David S. Lee

Lemieux's work has been published in a variety of academic venues, with several recurring publication outlets such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Labor Economics
Pin Code
Canadian Public Policy
The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Their contributions have also been recognized through awards, notably being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010 under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGNS IN ECONOMICS

David S. Lee;Thomas Lemieux

6219
Citations
Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

Guido W. Imbens;Thomas Lemieux

6039
Citations
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach

John E. DiNardo;John E. DiNardo;Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux;Thomas Lemieux

4226
Citations
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: a Semiparametric Approach.

John DiNardo;Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux

3911
Citations
Unconditional Quantile Regressions

Sergio Pinheiro Firpo;Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux

2421
Citations
Decomposition Methods in Economics

Nicole Fortin;Thomas Lemieux;Sergio Firpo

2336
Citations
Unconditional Quantile Regressions

Sergio Firpo;Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux

2247
Citations
DECOMPOSITION METHODS IN ECONOMICS

Nicole Fortin;Thomas Lemieux;Sergio Firpo

2054
Citations
Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

David Card;Thomas Lemieux

1962
Citations
Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or Rising Demand for Skill?

Thomas Lemieux

1354
Citations
The changing nature of wage inequality

Thomas Lemieux

1007
Citations
Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux;W. Bentley MacLeod;Daniel Parent

945
Citations
Institutional Changes and Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage?

Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux

811
Citations
Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

Guido W. Imbens;Thomas Lemieux;Thomas Lemieux

626
Citations
The Effects of Product Market Competition on Collective Bargaining Agreements: The Case of Foreign Competition in Canada

John A. Abowd;Thomas Lemieux

624
Citations
Unions and wage inequality

David Card;Thomas Lemieux;W. Craig Riddell

618
Citations
Decomposing Wage Distributions using Recentered Influence Function Regressions

Sergio P. Firpo;Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux

608
Citations
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

David S. Lee;Thomas Lemieux;Thomas Lemieux

586
Citations
Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France

David Card;Francis Kramarz;Thomas Lemieux

580
Citations
Post-Secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux

579
Citations
Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure

Sergio Firpo;Nicole M. Fortin;Thomas Lemieux

552
Citations
The “Mincer Equation” Thirty Years After Schooling, Experience, and Earnings

Thomas Lemieux

550
Citations
Alcohol, marijuana, and American youth: the unintended consequences of government regulation

John DiNardo;Thomas Lemieux

448
Citations
The effect of taxes on labor supply in the underground economy

Thomas Lemieux;Bernard Fortin

424
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Card University of California, Berkeley

Kevin Milligan University of British Columbia

John DiNardo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

W. Bentley MacLeod Columbia University

Paul Beaudry University of British Columbia

John M. Abowd Cornell University

Guido W. Imbens Stanford University

Francis Kramarz Collège de France

David A. Green University of British Columbia

Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University

External Links

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