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Jennifer HUNT (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Professeure / Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University, chercheuse / Research Fellow, CIREQ, CIRANO

Department of Economics
McGill University
Leacock Building, Room 443
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montréal (Québec) H3A 2T7

Téléphone : (514) 398-4400 #09001
Fax : (514) 398-4938
jennifer.hunt [at] mcgill.ca

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Publications choisies / Selected Publications

Articles dans des revues

  • "How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?" (avec M. Gauthier-Loiselle), American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics, à paraître.
  • "The Economics of German Reunification", The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, à paraître.
  • “How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down”, Journal of Development Economics, novembre 2007.
  • "Why Are Some Public Officials More Corrupt Than Others?”, dans International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, sous la direction de Susan Rose-Ackerman, Edward Elgar, Northampton, M.A., 2006.
  • "Do Teen Births Keep American Crime High?”, Journal of Law and Economics, octobre 2006.
  • "Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration", Journal of the European Economic Association, septembre 2006.
  • "Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants", Canadian Journal of Economics 37(4), novembre 2004, 830-849.
  • "Convergence and Determinants of Non-Employment Durations in Eastern and Western Germany", Journal of Population Economics 17(2), juin 2004, 249-266.
  • "Wasted Resources in Germany : The Paucity of Female Supervisors and the Wage Disadvantage of Their Subordinates" (avec C.-H. von Restorff), version anglaise de "Ressourcenverschwendung in Deutschland : Die geringe Anzahl weiblicher Vorgesetzter und die Lohneinbussen Ihrer Mitarbeiter", dans Herausforderungen an den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland, sous la direction de B. Fitzenberger, W. Smolny et P. Winker, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004.
  • "The Transition in East Germany : When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?", Journal of Labor Economics, janvier 2002.
  • "From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and the Labor Market in Eastern Germany" (avec M.C. Burda), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2, 2001.
  • "Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany", Review of Economics and Statistics, février 2001.
  • "Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment: An Examination of Germany", Economica, mai 2000.
  • "Wage Mobility in the United States" (avec Moshe Buchinsky), Review of Economics and Statistics, août 1999.
  • "Has Work-Sharing Worked in Germany?", Quarterly Journal of Economics, février 1999.
Activités éditoriales / Editorial Positions
  • Senior Advisory Council, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2002- .
  • Co-éditeur, Canadian Journal of Economics, septembre 2001-2005.
Travaux récents / Recent Research
  • "Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa", NBER Working Paper No. 14920, avril 2009.
  • "Is Bribery Really Regressive? Bribery’s Costs, Benefits and Mechanisms" (avec S. Laszlo), janvier 2007.
  • "The Grabbing Hand Gripping the Surgeon's Knife: The Influence of Bribery in Peruvian Hospitals", McGill Working Paper, mai 2006.