Dr. Rob Gillezeau
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Victoria
University of Victoria
My name is Rob Gillezeau and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria. Prior to my academic appointment, I served as the Chief Economist in the Office of Thomas Mulcair, the former Leader of the Official Opposition from 2011 until 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan in 2015.
My research focuses on topics in labour economics, public economics, and economic history. In particular, I apply causal methodology from labour economics to answer questions in modern American and Canadian economic history. My work has examined questions related to the interaction of the War on Poverty and the 1960s race riots, the growth of the North American trade union movement, and the role that the Transatlantic slave trade played in the development of ethnicity on the African continent.
My current research projects are divided into three areas: African American protest and police killings of civilians, the role of the bison and treaty-making in the long-run economic development of Indigenous peoples, and the impact of "right-to-work" legislation on union local and state federation finances.
My research focuses on topics in labour economics, public economics, and economic history. In particular, I apply causal methodology from labour economics to answer questions in modern American and Canadian economic history. My work has examined questions related to the interaction of the War on Poverty and the 1960s race riots, the growth of the North American trade union movement, and the role that the Transatlantic slave trade played in the development of ethnicity on the African continent.
My current research projects are divided into three areas: African American protest and police killings of civilians, the role of the bison and treaty-making in the long-run economic development of Indigenous peoples, and the impact of "right-to-work" legislation on union local and state federation finances.