W. Craig Riddell is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research interests are in labour economics, labour relations and public policy. Current research is focused on unemployment and labour market dynamics, the role of human capital in economic growth, experimental and non-experimental approaches to the evaluation of social programs, unionization and collective bargaining, gender differences in labour market behavior and outcomes, unemployment insurance and social assistance, and education and training. Recent publications include: "Qualifying for Unemployment Insurance: An Empirical Analysis" Economic Journal, 1997 (with David Green); Wages, Skills and Technology in the United States and Canada in E. Helpman (ed.) General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth, MIT Press, 1998 (with Kevin Murphy and Paul Romer); The Measurement of Unemployment: An Empirical Approach Econometrica 1999 (with Stephen Jones); "Canadian Labour Market Performance in International Perspective" Canadian Journal of Economics 1999. He is also co-author (with Dwayne Benjamin and Morley Gunderson) of Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, the leading Canadian labour economics textbook. Professor Riddell is former Head of the Department of Economics at UBC, former Academic Co-Chair of the Canadian Employment Research Forum, and Past-President of the Canadian Economics Association.
