Irina Merkurieva

Dr Irina Merkurieva joined the University of St Andrews 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 Applied Microeconomics Cluster.

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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Labour economics; retirement; gender wage and pension gaps; executive compensation; informal employment.

EC4411 Labour Economics (Honours)

EC4425 Econometrics of Impact Evaluation (Honours)

EC5203 Econometric Methods and Applicationa (MSc)

Labour economics; retirement; executive compensation; informal employment; search and matching.