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Brian McCaig

Wilfrid Laurier University

Brian McCaig is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Prior to joining WLU in 2012, Dr. McCaig was a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute. His research explores how households, workers, and firms respond to globalization in low-income countries, with a focus on Vietnam. His research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of International Economics and the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.

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Related Projects

  • Structural Change, International Trade, and Labour Markets in a Low-Income Country

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 4

    Creating Formal Sector Jobs in Low-Income Countries
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 9

    Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalising Low-Income Country
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 23

    Out with the Old and Unproductive, in with the New and Similarly Unproductive

Published Articles

  • The American Economic Review, 105(5), 545-550

    Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalizing Low-Income Country

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