Maia Güell received her Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics in 2000. She was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University before joining Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she is currently Associate Professor. She is also a Research Affiliate in the Labour Economics Programme of CEPR, the Center for Economic Performance at the LSE and IZA. She has made academic visits to Princeton in 2003, the CEP (LSE) in 2004 and LSE in 2006. She has recently accepted a Professorship in Economics at the University of Edinburgh starting in 2007.
Maia's research interests are in theoretical and empirical labour economics. She has studied extensively the effect of labour market regulations on labour market outcomes, the choice of firms' personnel policies in regulated labour markets, and gender differences in the labour market. More recently she has focused on the study of inheritance using the information contained in surnames.
Personal Interests
Outside work, she likes to be by the sea, in the sea and on the sea. |
