Biography
Dr Irina Merkurieva joined the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø as a lecturer (assistant professor) in 2014 after completing her PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and got tenure in 2018. She has previously worked at the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University.
Irina is a member and convenor of the .
Teaching
EC4411 Labour Economics (Honours)
EC4425 Econometrics of Impact Evaluation (Honours)
EC5203 Econometric Methods and Applicationa (MSc)
Research areas
Irina is a labour economist with research interests in the areas of retirement, informal employment, and executive compensation. Her work is grounded in life cycle models of labour supply and search and matching models. Irina's current research projects aim to understand the dynamics of executive compensation, the relationship between informal employment and retirement, and the effects of university subject choices on labour market outcomes across the life cycle. Her earlier work focused on the impact of involuntary job loss on the retirement decisions. She also investigated whether the coordination of retirement by couples can be attributed to leisure complementarities.
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PhD supervision
- Qunli Hu
- Mercy Rugut
- Pengkheang Yoeun
Selected publications
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Open access
Leighton, M. & Merkurieva, I., 17 Dec 2025, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø: University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 38 p. (Economics discussion papers (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø); no. 2505).
Research output: Working paper
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Open access
Merkurieva, I., Dec 2023, In: Labour Economics. 85
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Chollete, L., Lu, C.-C. & Merkurieva, I., 8 Dec 2022, Online: SSRN, 60 p. (S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Paper Series).
Research output: Working paper
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Chollete, L. & Merkurieva, I., 28 Sept 2021, Online: SSRN, 60 p. (S&P Global Market Intelligence Research Paper Series).
Research output: Working paper
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Merkurieva, I., 15 Feb 2019, In: International Economic Review. 60, 1, p. 259-282
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Herd, P., Higgins, J., Sicinski, K. & Merkurieva, I., Mar 2016, In: American Journal of Public Health. 106, 3, p. 421-429 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Merkurieva, I., 2014, Online: SSRN, p. 1-36, 36 p.
Research output: Working paper
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Becker, C. & Merkurieva, I., 2012, In: Economics and Human Biology. 10, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review