CLEF is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Best Young Researcher Paper Prize in labour economics, offered to the best paper written by a Canadian student or recent graduate.
First Prize: Pascuel Plotkin (University of British Columbia) for “Dinner at Your Door: How Delivery Platforms Affect Workers and Firms”
Runner-ups: Mahmut Ablay (McGill University) for “Dynamics of the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Role of Changes in Firm-Specific Wage Premiums” and Xiner Xu (University of Toronto) for “Understanding Firm Responses to Immigration Shocks”
Scientific Committee: Tammy Schirle (Wilfrid Laurier University), Derek Messacar (Memorial University), and Catherine Michaud-Leclerc (Laval University)