miplesca at uoguelph.ca
Areas of Specialization: Labour Economics, Program Evaluation
Miana Plesca joined the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in 2003. She received her B.A. (Computer Science) from Technical University of Cluj, Romania in 1994, an M.A. (Econ) from Georgetown University in 1999, and a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 2005. Her main research interests are in labour economics. In particular, she has studied the methodology of evaluating training and re-employment programs; the general equilibrium effects the US Employment Service; the effects of occupational mobility on understanding the returns to employer- and government-sponsored training; the effects of aggregate and sectoral fluctuations on firms' training decision; as well as the returns to post-secondary education.
(with Vincenzo Caponi and Cevat Burc Kayahan) "The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training" (2010) The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Advances, 10(1) art.28.
"A General Equilibrium Evaluation of the U.S. Public Employment Service" (2010) The Journal of Human Capital (accepted conditionally).
(with Vincenzo Caponi) "Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap Between College and Univesity Graduates?" (2009) Canadian Journal of Economics, 42(3): 1100-1131.
(with Jeffrey Smith) "Evaluating Multi-Treatment Programs: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act." (2007) Empirical Economics 32(2-3): 491-528.
Working papers
(with Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Manovski) "Returns to Government-Sponsored Training"