Vera Brencic

About

See attached CV.

Research

Research interests:

• Labor Economics (primary): Search and Matching, Personnel Economics
• Industrial Organization (secondary): Two-Sided Markets

Publications:

• Brenčič, Vera. 2007. Employers’ Search Prior to Exhaustion of Advance Notice Period, Economics Letters, 94 (2), 266-270.
• Brenčič, Vera. 2009. Employers’ Hiring Practices, Employment Protection, and Costly Search: A Vacancy-Level Analysis, Labour Economics, 16(5), 461-479. Lead article.
• Brenčič, Vera and John B. Norris. 2009. Employers’ Online Search: An Empirical Analysis, Industrial Relations, 48(4), 684-709. 
• Brenčič, Vera and Denise Young. 2009. Time-Saving Innovations, Time Allocation, and Energy Use: Evidence from Canadian Households, Ecological Economics, 68(11), 2859-2867.  
• Brenčič, Vera. 2010. Do Employers Respond to the Costs of Continued Search? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 72(2), 211-245.
• Brenčič, Vera and John B. Norris. 2010. On-the-Job Tasks and Performance Pay: A Vacancy-Level Analysis, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63(3), 511-542.
• Brenčič, Vera and John B. Norris. 2010. Do Employers Change Job Offers in Their Online Job Ads to Facilitate Search? Economics Letters, 108(1), 46-48. 
• Brenčič, Vera. 2012. Wage Posting: Evidence from Job Ads, Canadian Journal of Economics, 45(4), 1529-1559. 
• Brenčič, Vera and John B. Norris. 2012. Employers’ Online Recruitment and Screening Practices, Economic Inquiry, 50(1), 94-111. 
• Brenčič, Vera. 2014. Search Online: Evidence from Information Acquisition on Online Job Boards and Resume Banks, Journal of Economic Psychology, 42, 112-125. 
• Brenčič, Vera. 2015. Employers’ Efforts to Deter Shirking in Teams, Labour: Review of Labor Relations, 29(1), 55-78.
• Brenčič, Vera. 2016. The Impact of Craigslist's Entry on Competing Employment Websites, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 5(7), 1-15.
• Brenčič, Vera and Marko Pahor. 2019. Exporting, Skill Upgrading, and Skill Mismatch: Evidence from Employers’ Hiring Practices, World Economy, 42(6), 1740-1773.
• Brenčič, Vera, Julie Dubois, and Lucie Morin. 2020. Improvements in Electronic Job Alerts and the Labor Market Experience of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from the Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs Initiative, Canadian Public Policy, 46(2), 214-235.
• Brenčič, Vera. 2021. Interaction between Technology and Recruiting, IZA World of Labor: 485. DOI: 10.15185/izawol.485.
• Brenčič, Vera. 2022. Developments in the Market for Employment Websites in the U.S., International Journal of the Economics of Business, 29(1), 33-56. 
• Brenčič, Vera. 2024. Network Size and Terms of Use: Evidence from Employment Websites, Information Economics and Policy, 67: 1-12. Lead article.
• Brenčič, Vera. 2024. Distribution of Vacancies and New Hires across Employers: Implications for Skill Requirements, Wage Offers, and Hiring Outcomes, Labour Economics, 91: 1-10.
• Brenčič, Vera and Andrew D. McGee. 2024. Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting, Research in Labor Economics: Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, 52A, 161–211.   

Working papers & Work in progress:

• Brenčič, Vera. 2024. Tariffs Reductions and Labor Market Frictions.
• Brenčič, Vera and Andrew D. McGee. 2024. Employers’ Demand for Personality Traits.
• Brenčič, Vera. 2024. Data Protection Regulation: Implications for Online Labor Market Intermediaries in the U.S. and Canada.

Teaching

Teaching interests: 

• Labor Economics
• Personnel Economics
• Econometrics

ECON 331 - Introduction to Labor Economics

Introduction to labor economics, supply and demand for labor, labor market equilibrium, human capital investments, compensating wage differentials, inequality, incentive pay, unemployment, and job search. Not open to students with credit in or enrolled in ECON 431. Prerequisite: ECON 281.

ECON 334 - Personnel Economics

Microeconomic approach to personnel economics. Topics covered include selection, recruitment and training of new workers, optimal job design, and optimal compensation design. Prerequisite: ECON 281.

ECON 999 - Directed Research Project

Prerequisites: ECON 503, 581, 598, and 599.

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