Thomas Lemieux

Thomas Lemieux (born August 10, 1962) is a Canadian economist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He is renowned as one of the world's leading labour economists, with a particular focus on wage inequality. Lemieux obtained his B.A. in economics from Université Laval in 1984, his M.A. in economics from Queen's University in 1985, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989. He began his teaching career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later became an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal. Since 1999, Lemieux has held a faculty position at the University of British Columbia.More