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Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) Conference

From Friday 17 Apr 2026 at 8:15AM
To Saturday 18 Apr 2026 at 3:50PM

The Second Annual Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) Conference will take place in Montréal, Québec, on April 17-18, 2026, hosted by CIRANO and the Department of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Our keynote speaker will be Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University).

The keynote speaker of this event is Ilyana Kuziemko. Ilyana Kuziemko is the Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, co-director of the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, and co-director of the Princeton Program in Public Finance at Princeton University. Kuziemko re-joined the Princeton faculty in 2014, after teaching at Columbia Business School from 2012-14, where she was the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business. From 2009-2010, Kuziemko served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she worked primarily on the development and early implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

This event is organized as part of CIRANO’s 2025–2026 thematic year, “Education and the Workforce: Toward a More Productive and Equitable Society.”

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Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude
Killam Professor, Dalhousie University
Chairholder, Maxwell Chair of Economics
Akotto, Paule Olivia
PhD student, Université de Sherbrooke
Amer, Abdelrahman
Student (Ph.D.), University of Toronto
Beauregard, Pierre-Loup
Ph.D. candidate, University of British Columbia
Benetti, Sara
Student (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia
Eliott, Sean
Student (Ph.D.), University of Toronto
Gauthier, Jean-François
CIRANO Researcher
Assistant Professor, HEC Montréal
Ph.D., Economics, Boston College
Gopal, Bhargav
Economist, Queen's University
Green, David A.
Professor, Vancouver School of Economics
Gyetvay, Sam
Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Koebel, Kourtney
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Kuziemko, Ilyana
Professor, Department of Economics and Management, Princeton University
Liu, Huju
MacLeod, William Bentley
CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow
Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Professor, Columbia University
Ph.D., Economics, University of British Columbia
Skuterud, Mikal
Professor, Department of Economics and Management, University of Waterloo
van Effenterre, Clementine
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
Zheng, Angela
Professor, McMaster University

Program

Friday, April 17
8:30 - 9:10
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Friday, April 17
9:10 - 9:20
Opening Remarks
Mikal Skuterud
Friday, April 17
9:20 - 11:20
Session 1
Kourtney Koebel, Catherine Haeck, Clementine van Effenterre, Nicole Fortin, Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Catherine Michaud-Leclerc
Friday, April 17
11:20 - 11:40
Coffee Break
Friday, April 17
11:40 - 13:00
Session 2
Jean-François Gauthier, Gabrielle Vasey, Paule Olivia Akotto, Francesco Amodio
Friday, April 17
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Friday, April 17
14:00 - 15:20
Session 3
David A. Green, Chris Worswick, Sam Gyetvay
Friday, April 17
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
Friday, April 17
15:40 - 17:00
Keynote Presentation
Ilyana Kuziemko
Friday, April 17
17:00 - 18:00
Reception at CIRANO (all participants welcome)
Friday, April 17
18:30 - 0:00
Dinner (pre-registration required)
Saturday, April 18
8:00 - 9:00
Continental Breakfast
Saturday, April 18
9:00 - 11:00
Session 4 : BEST PAPER PRIZE WINNERS
Abdelrahman Amer, Sara Benetti, Pierre-Loup Beauregard
Saturday, April 18
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee Break
Saturday, April 18
11:20 - 12:40
Session 5
Angela Zheng, Fernando Saltiel, Sean Eliott
Saturday, April 18
12:40 - 13:40
Dîner
Saturday, April 18
13:40 - 15:40
Session 6
William Bentley MacLeod, Thomas Lemieux, Bhargav Gopal, Huju Liu
Saturday, April 18
15:40 - 15:50
Closing Remarks
Mikal Skuterud

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada