Ioana Marinescu

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Ioana Elena Marinescu
Born (1979-05-21) May 21, 1979 (age 44)
Bucharest, Romania
CitizenshipAmerican, French, Romanian
Alma mater
Known forstudy of monopsony in labor markets
SpouseKonrad Körding
Children3
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
Institutions
Thesis
Doctoral advisors
Websitehttp://www.marinescu.eu/

Ioana Elena Marinescu is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice[1] a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research,[2] and a columnist for Libération,[3] whose research is widely covered in the popular media.[4][5][6][7]

Life and education[edit]

Born in Romania, Marinescu completed a PhD in 2005 at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris,[8] and a second PhD in 2007 at the London School of Economics.[9] Her latter thesis, from LSE, was titled The economics of unfair dismissal in the United Kingdom, and other topics in public policy.[10] She was an assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy in Chicago from 2007 to 2017.[11] She became a U.S. citizen in 2021.[12]

Research[edit]

Marinescu's research focuses on labor markets, including online job search, competition in the labor market, universal basic income, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and employment contracts.

Marinescu has testified on competition in labor markets before the US House Judiciary Committee,[13] the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division,[14] and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.[15] She advocates for increased scrutiny of mergers with respect to their labor market implications.[16]

Selected works[edit]

  • Aghion, Philippe, Stephen Bond, Alexander Klemm, and Ioana Marinescu. "Technology and financial structure: are innovative firms different?." Journal of the European Economic Association 2, no. 2-3 (2004): 277–288.
  • Marinescu, Ioana. "The general equilibrium impacts of unemployment insurance: Evidence from a large online job board." Journal of Public Economics 150 (2017): 14–29.
  • Marinescu, Ioana. "Are judges sensitive to economic conditions? Evidence from UK employment tribunals." ILR Review 64, no. 4 (2011): 673–698.
  • Azar, José, Ioana Marinescu, and Marshall I. Steinbaum. Labor market concentration. No. w24147. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017.
  • Marinescu, Ioana, and Roland Rathelot. "Mismatch unemployment and the geography of job search." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 10, no. 3 (2018): 42–70.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ioana E. Marinescu". Wharton Public Policy Initiative. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  2. ^ "Ioana Marinescu". www.nber.org. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  3. ^ "Ioana Marinescu". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  4. ^ Keshner, Andrew. "As Democrats spar over guaranteed jobs, universal basic income and $15 minimum wage, which would best help Americans?". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  5. ^ "What is Universal Basic Income?". Teen Vogue. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  6. ^ "Why workers make less in company towns". PBS NewsHour. 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. ^ "Economists think antitrust policy should pay more attention to workers". The Economist. 2018-10-27. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  8. ^ "Coûts et procédures de licenciement, croissance et innovation technologique". www.theses.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  9. ^ Marinescu, Ioana. "The economics of unfair dismissal in the United Kingdom, and other topics in public policy" (PDF). LSE Theses Online, the online archive of PhD theses for the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  10. ^ Marinescu, Ioana Elena (2007). The economics of unfair dismissal in the United Kingdom, and other topics in public policy (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  11. ^ "When Marriage Doesn't Work". The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  12. ^ Marinescu, Ioana (2021). "Today, I became a #newUScitizen Flag of United States. I look forward to being of service". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  13. ^ "Antitrust and Economic Opportunity: Competition in Labor Markets". Committee on the Judiciary - Democrats. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  14. ^ "Public Workshop on Competition in Labor Markets". www.justice.gov. 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  15. ^ Arlington, George Mason University 3351 Fairfax Drive; States, VA VA 22201 United (2018-10-01). "FTC Hearing #3: Multi-Sided Platforms, Labor Markets, and Potential Competition". Federal Trade Commission. Retrieved 2019-10-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Antitrust and Labor Market Power". Economics for Inclusive Prosperity. Retrieved 2019-10-29.


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