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Tammy Schirle is a professor of economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also an Editor for the journal Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques, a C.D. Howe Institute Research Fellow, the former Director of the Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis (LCERPA), and a former board member for the Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF).
She completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2006. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BA (Honours) in Economics in 1999 and completed her MA in Economics at Dalhousie University (Halifax) in 2000.
Her research interests include the economics of the elderly, income inequality, social policy and the economics of gender. She has published articles in several academic journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy and Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. She is the co-author of the Canadian textbook Labour Market Economics.
2025 - CWEC/CFEC Sylvia Ostry Award
- Ferrer, A., Y. Pan, and T. Schirle. 2025. "Added worker effects in Canada: the effect of spousal job loss on transitions into employment." Canadian Public Policy, 51(1), March.
- Schirle, T. 2023. “Pensions, retirement incentives, and the role of inflation.” Canadian Tax Journal (Policy Forum), 71:2
- Milligan, K. and T. Schirle. 2021. "The Evolution of Longevity: Evidence from Canada." Canadian Journal of Economics, 54(1), 164-192.
- Lemieux, T., K. Milligan, T. Schirle and M. Skuterud. 2020. “Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Canadian labour market.” Canadian Public Policy. COVID-19 special issue, DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2020-049.
- Milligan, K. and T. Schirle. 2019. "Push and Pull: Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States." Journal of Labor Economics, July 2019.
- Legree, S., T. Schirle and M. Skuterud. 2017. "The Effect of Labor Relations Laws on Unionization Rates within the Labor Force: Evidence from the Canadian Provinces." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 56(4): 605-639.
- Schirle, T. 2015. "The gender wage gap in the Canadian Provinces, 1997-2014." Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 41(4), December 2015, 309-319.
- Schirle, T. 2015. "The effect of universal child benefits on labour supply." Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 48(2), May 2015, 437-463.
- Ariizumi, Hideki, Yaqin Hu and T. Schirle. 2015. "Stand together or alone? Family structure and the business cycle in Canada.” Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 13(1), March 2015, 135-161.
- Lu, Yuqian, René Morissette, and T. Schirle. 2011. "The Growth in Family Earnings Inequality in Canada: 1980-2005." The Review of Income and Wealth. Vol. 57, issue 1, pp. 23-29.
- Schirle, T. 2008. "Why Have the Labour Force Participation Rates of Older Men Increased Since the Mid-1990s?" Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 26(4), pp. 549-594.
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