Expertise

Labour economics, economics of immigration, economics of education, applied econometrics

Biography

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2004, Brahim Boudarbat is Full Professor in the School of Industrial Relations of the Université de Montréal. He is also Director of the Observatoire de la Francophonie économique de l'Université de Montréal, a Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and a member of the Expert Committee of the Labour Market Information Council.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Montréal, he is interested in issues related to immigration, post-secondary education, income inequality and working conditions of Canadians. In particular, his research interests and work focus on the integration of immigrants into the labour market in Quebec and Canada, career choices by young Canadians, income distribution, income gaps between men and women, the return on education, overqualification in the job, the use of languages at work and their remuneration in Quebec, the brain drain, indicators of job quality. He is also interested in the education and vocational training systems and youth employment in Morocco.

Brahim Boudarbat is the author of numerous articles and reports on the labour market. He has conducted studies for several organizations, including the Quebec Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion, Emploi-Québec, the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail (Quebec) and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. He also participated in the drafting of the 2016 Arab Human Development Report for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Prior to his current position, Brahim Boudarbat was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was also Director of the Data Centre of the Université de Montréal, a member organization of the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS). From 1991 to 1998, Brahim Boudarbat was responsible for employment policies and the monitoring of the professional integration of graduates within the Ministry of Vocational Training in Morocco.

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CIRANO Publications by Brahim Boudarbat

As an author

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Immigrant de deuxième génération et citoyen de second ordre ?

Brahim Boudarbat and Idossou Marius Adom

Immigration and Labour Market
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Les minorités visibles nées au Canada: l’angle mort des politiques d’intégration au marché du travail

Brahim Boudarbat and Idossou Marius Adom

Immigration and Labour Market
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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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Y a-t-il discrimination à l’embauche des jeunes Maghrébins au Québec ? Résultats d’une expérience contrôlée à Montréal

Brahim Boudarbat and Claude Montmarquette

Human Capital, Skills, 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 private and social returns to vocational training and college or university education in Quebec in 2020

François Vaillancourt, Brahim Boudarbat, Genevieve Dufour

Economic study on the financial incentive for francization

Brahim Boudarbat, François Vaillancourt

Immigration, Education, Labour Market

Integration of immigrants and visible minorities into the Quebec labour market

Immigrant de deuxième génération et citoyen de second ordre ? - Publié le February 19, 2024

Brahim Boudarbat, Idossou Marius Adom

Labour Market, Human Capital

Barriers and ways to help immigrants integrate into the labour market: the employers' perspective

Y a-t-il discrimination à l’embauche des jeunes Maghrébins au Québec ? Résultats d’une expérience contrôlée à Montréal - Publié le October 21, 2020

Brahim Boudarbat, Claude Montmarquette

Human Capital, Labour Market, Human Resources