Natalia Mishagina

Natalia Mishagina is an experienced economist whose work merges research and public policy to better serve Canadian workers and society in a time of new digital technologies, changing demographics and Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy. She leads the IRPP’s Empowering Canada’s Workforce research program, which has published studies that investigate lessons for the adult education system, approaches to employer-provided training in Quebec and skills-based models of career advising. Natalia is also involved in IRPP’s Low-Carbon Workforce Transformation project. Before joining the IRPP, Natalia worked as a researcher at the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO) and as an economist at Analysis Group Inc. She holds a PhD in economics from Queen’s University.

Recent Policy Options articles by Natalia:

• Making Canada’s skills-development system up-to-date and more effective should be evidence-based and grounded in top-quality research
• In a post-pandemic recovery, what will laid-off workers do to get back on their feet?
• The importance of new social norms in a COVID-19 outbreak

• Applied econometrics
• Behavioural and experimental economics
• STEM workforce and education
• Health and labour market policies
• Immigration