Expertise

Population economics, health economics, labour economics

Biography

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2011, Main Researcher of the theme Skills, Fabian Lange is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University. He is also Program Director Industrial Relations Major, Director of the Montreal Partnership for Human Resource Management and Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Labor and Personnel Economics.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, he pursues interests in population, health and labour economics.

After receiving his Ph.D. in 2004, he joined the Department of Economics at Yale University as an Assistant Professor. In 2010, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Yale. He joined the economics department at McGill University in 2012. Fabian held visiting positions at the University of Chicago, Oberlin College, and the University of Michigan.

In population economics, he studied the link between schooling and fertility decisions. He has published work on the trade-offs between increased fertility and education (the quantity-quality model) using data sources from the historical American South. In health economics, he studies the determinants of the socio-economic gradient in health. He asks what role information processing, cognitive ability, and education play in generating socio-economic gradients in health? Further, he develops and estimates models of health dynamics and uses these to study the socio-economic gradient in health. In labour economics, his research interests concern how workers careers are shaped by processes of information revelation. In particular, he studies the role of employer learning in generating earnings inequality as individuals age. He also studies stigma due to prolonged unemployment and its implications for optimal unemployment insurance schemes.

He received the H.G. Lewis Prize 2006-2007, the IZA Young Labor Economist Award 2008 and the John Rae Prize of the Canadian Economic Association 2016.

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CIRANO Publications by Fabian Lange

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Le Québec économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail

Genevieve Dufour, Benoit Dostie, Catherine Haeck, Jimmy Jean, Hélène Bégin, Joëlle Noreau, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Ingrid Peignier, Jean-Claude Cloutier, Mia Homsy, Simon Savard, Ugo Ceppi, Yves Fortier, Fabian Lange, Robert Gagné, Jonathan Deslauriers, Jonathan Paré, Claude Montmarquette, François Vaillancourt, Brigitte Milord, Nicholas-James Clavet, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Julien Navaux, Marie Connolly, Lucie Raymond-Brousseau, Raquel Fonseca, Marie Mélanie Fontaine, Luc Bissonnette, Charles Roy, Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Luc Godbout, Suzie St-Cerny, Michael Robert-Angers, Sylvie St-Onge, Ali Béjaoui, Camille Sauvé-Plante, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Marie-Claire Ishimo, Régis Blais, Marjolaine Hamel, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Guy Lacroix, Brahim Boudarbat and 38 other authors

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Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020

Stephen R.G. Jones, Fabian Lange, W. Craig Riddell and Casey Warman

Human Capital, Covid-19, Work, Labour Market and Human Resources

CIRANO Projects

A comprehensive, structuring project on the state of the Quebec labor market

Benoit Dostie, Fabian Lange, Brahim Boudarbat, Marie Connolly, Luc Godbout, Genevieve Dufour

Education, Taxation and Fiscal Policy, Immigration, Innovation, Labour Market

The effect of inadequate labor supply and demand on recruitment and unemployment in Quebec

Fabian Lange, Markus Poschke, Brennan McLachlan

The socio-economic benefits of catching up with boys in Quebec

Fabian Lange, Marie Connolly

The labour market during the COVID-19 crisis

Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020 - Publié le June 15, 2020

Fabian Lange, Marie Connolly, Catherine Haeck, Pierre-Loup Beauregard

Labour Market