Nora Traum, HEC Montréal

Research

job search search effort unemployment benefits vacancies female labour supply

Latest funding

The Stock Market Impact of Government Purchases: Firm-Level Returns and Macroeconomic Effects
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$36,044
"We Belong": Exploring Patterns and Predictors of Belonging and Well-being with the Youth Impact Survey
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$43,651
New perspectives on job search and labour markets
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$42,000

The Stock Market Impact of Government Purchases: Firm-Level Returns and Macroeconomic Effects

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cacciatore, Matteo

Keywords: Procurement contracts; Abnormal stock returns; Event study; Return decomposition; Granular instrumental variables; Fiscal multipliers

$36,044

"We Belong": Exploring Patterns and Predictors of Belonging and Well-being with the Youth Impact Survey

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Browne, Dillon T.

Keywords: well-being; belonging; youth; community; survey

$43,651

New perspectives on job search and labour markets

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Traum, Nora J.

Keywords: job search; search effort; unemployment benefits; vacancies; female labour supply

$42,000

New perspectives on job search and labour markets

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Traum, Nora J.

Keywords: job search; search effort; unemployment benefits; vacancies; female labour supply

$60,000

Estimating the Effects of Government Spending Along the Supply Chain

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Cacciatore, Matteo

Keywords: Government Spending; Supply Chains; Local Projections; Fiscal spillovers; Fiscal policy

$24,591

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: job search Dear Professor Traum, 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 on job search 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 "New perspectives on job search and labour markets" (2022), 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]