Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Unions in Canada: Going Beyond the Wage Gap
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$254,066
Imperfect competition and wage disparities: New evidence and policy implications
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$108,600
Imperfect competition and wage disparities: New evidence and policy implications
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$61,050

All 14 grants and awards

No publications available.

Unions in Canada: Going Beyond the Wage Gap

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

$254,066

Imperfect competition and wage disparities: New evidence and policy implications

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

Keywords: unions; wage disparities; imperfect competition; matched employer-employee data

$108,600

Imperfect competition and wage disparities: New evidence and policy implications

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

Keywords: unions; wage disparities; imperfect competition; matched employer-employee data

$61,050

Women's economic progress: why so few in top jobs

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fortin, Nicole M.

Keywords: gender inequality; earnings inequality; econometric methods; data analysis; survey experiments

$176,900

Prix Impact : Savoir

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

Keywords: labour markets; applied econometrics

$50,000

Wages, occupations, and fields of study

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

Keywords: wages; occupations; fields of study; inequality

$63,000

Migration: integration, impact and interaction

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009NORFACE Transnational Program

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

$109,200

The changing nature of wage inequality

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

Keywords: inequality; labour markets

$60,000

Canadian labour research cluster

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006

Principal investigators: Riddell, W. Craig

Keywords: labour markets and education; labour economics; labour relations; public policy; education and training; evaluation of social programs; unemployment and labour market dynamics; immigration

$2,060,000

Outreach symposium

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005INE Outreach Grants

Principal investigators: Lemieux, Thomas

Keywords: public policy; imparting knowledge

$36,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Lemieux, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Unions in Canada: Going Beyond the Wage Gap" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]