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Nicole Fortin is a Full Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC), where she teaches labour economics and empirical economics at graduate and undergraduate levels. She joined UBC in 1999 after a decade-long faculty position at her hometown institution, Université de Montréal.
Her research program centers on three interconnected streams: (1) wage inequality dynamics and their relationship with labour market institutions and public policies, including higher education frameworks; (2) methodological innovations in decomposition techniques, notably the DFL reweighting decomposition and RIF regression methodologies published in Econometrica; and (3) the economic progress of women, with seminal contributions analyzing gender role attitudes, career choice determinants (money versus people), and the obstructive role of top-earner gender disparity in closing pay gaps. These streams consistently integrate advanced econometric approaches with policy-relevant economic questions.
Recent publications (2019-2024) demonstrate thematic continuity with expanding contemporary relevance, particularly through pandemic-related risk distribution analyses and persistent gender pay gap investigations. Her work maintains methodological rigor through decomposition frameworks while addressing urgent issues like right-to-work legislation impacts, federal service pay equity, and basic income program effects. The Canadian context remains prominent throughout her scholarship, especially in earnings inequality studies.
