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Expertise

Health economics, pension systems, retirement and aging, poverty, entrepreneurship, labor markets

Biography

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2012, Raquel Fonseca is Professor in the Department of Economics at the École des sciences de la gestion of the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is also co-holder of the Research Chair in Intergenerational Economics (CREEi), researcher and laboratory director at Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM), researcher at Centre de recherche sur les risques, les enjeux économiques, et les politiques publiques (CRREP) and Affilated Adjunct Economist at RAND Corporation.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Louvain, her research interests are health economics, pension systems, retirement and aging, poverty, entrepreneurship and labor markets.

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CIRANO Publications by Raquel Fonseca

As an author

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How Does Basic Income for the Elderly Affect Health of the Self-employed?

Emma Aguila and Raquel Fonseca

Public Finance, Labour Market and Health
PR

L’évolution et la composition de la richesse des ménages Québécois

Raquel Fonseca and Markus Poschke

Economic and Fiscal Policy
CS

Replacement rates of public pensions in Canada: heterogeneity across socio-economic status

Nicholas-James Clavet, Mayssun El-Attar and Raquel Fonseca

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Le Québec économique 10 - Chapitre 11 - Les rendements des compétences sur le marché du travail au Québec : le rôle de la numératie.

Raquel Fonseca, Catherine Haeck and Marie Mélanie Fontaine

Skills and Labour Market
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Le Québec économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail

Genevieve Dufour, Benoit Dostie, Catherine Haeck, Jimmy Jean, Hélène Bégin, Joëlle Noreau, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Ingrid Peignier, Jean-Claude Cloutier, Mia Homsy, Simon Savard, Ugo Ceppi, Yves Fortier, Fabian Lange, Robert Gagné, Jonathan Deslauriers, Jonathan Paré, Claude Montmarquette, François Vaillancourt, Brigitte Milord, Nicholas-James Clavet, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Julien Navaux, Marie Connolly, Lucie Raymond-Brousseau, Raquel Fonseca, Marie Mélanie Fontaine, Luc Bissonnette, Charles Roy, Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Luc Godbout, Suzie St-Cerny, Michael Robert-Angers, Sylvie St-Onge, Ali Béjaoui, Camille Sauvé-Plante, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Marie-Claire Ishimo, Régis Blais, Marjolaine Hamel, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Guy Lacroix, Brahim Boudarbat and 38 other authors

How Does Basic Income for the Elderly Affect Health of the Self-employed?

L’évolution et la composition de la richesse des ménages Québécois

Replacement rates of public pensions in Canada: heterogeneity across socio-economic status

Le Québec économique 10 - Chapitre 11 - Les rendements des compétences sur le marché du travail au Québec : le rôle de la numératie.

Le Québec économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail

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External Publications

IDEAS/RePEc Publications

Nicholas-James Clavet & Mayssun El-Attar & Raquel Fonseca (2022) - Replacement Rates of Public Pensions in Canada: Heterogeneity across SocioEconomic Status

Josué Diwambuena & Raquel Fonseca & Stefan Schubert (2021) - Italian Labour Frictions and Wage Rigidities in an Estimated DSGE

Raquel Fonseca & Hugo Morin & Ana I. Moro-Egido (2021) - Stress and Retirement

Josué Diwambuena & Raquel Fonseca & Stefan Schubert (2021) - Italian Labour Frictions and Wage Rigidities in an Estimated DSGE

Raquel Fonseca & François Langot & Pierre-Carl Michaud & Thepthida Sopraseuth (2020) - Understanding Cross-country Differences in Health Status and Expenditures

Côté-Sergent, Aurelie & Fonseca, Raquel & Strumpf, Erin (2020) - Comparing the education gradient in health deterioration among the elderly in six OECD countries

Raquel Fonseca & Pierre-Carl Michaud & Yuhui Zheng (2020) - The effect of education on health: evidence from national compulsory schooling reforms

Raquel Fonseca & Simon Lord & Simon C. Parker (2020) - Self-Employment at Older Ages in Canada

Raquel Fonseca & François Langot & Pierre-Carl Michaud & Thepthida Sopraseuth (2020) - Understanding Cross-country Differences in Health Status and Expenditures

Mayssun El-Attar & Raquel Fonseca (2020) - Public Pensions and Low Income Dynamics in Canada

All IDEAS/REPEC publications

News

October 29, 2024

The “Québec des Bâtisseurs” research initiative is launched

August 27, 2024

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Raquel Fonseca become editor of the Journal of Pension Economics & Finance

May 21, 2024

Raquel Fonseca receives the Marcel-Dagenais 2024 Award

All news

Events

As a speaker

Upcoming

December 5, 2024

Renewal of the CREEi Chair, celebrating its 10th anniversary

Past

October 28, 2024

Launch of a new research initiative "Le Québec des Bâtisseurs"

April 29, 2024

First conference on New Research and Policy Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty

April 4, 2024

External activity - Minimum income: Rethinking government income support measures in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada

May 8, 2023

External Activity : ACFAS 2023 - symposium Inequality and Poverty : How Evidence-Based Data can Inform Public Policies

September 27, 2022

En avant math! Forum

May 31, 2022

56th Annual Canadian Economics Association Meetings

March 15, 2022

Launch of the activities of Québec économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail

March 8, 2022

Midi-webinaire CIQSS - The link between numeracy skills and labour market outcomes in Quebec

April 25, 2019

Conference CIRANO 25years: CIRANO 25 Years Conference

November 26, 2018

Workshop: Joint Montreal Macro Brownbag

Events

As an organizer

May 8, 2023

External Activity : ACFAS 2023 - symposium Inequality and Poverty : How Evidence-Based Data can Inform Public Policies

CIRANO Projects

Dynamic returns on numeracy

Raquel Fonseca, Catherine Haeck, Andrei Munteanu

Wealth Inequality in Quebec and Ontario: An Intergenerational Comparison

Raquel Fonseca, Markus Poschke

Impacts of COVID-19 on Quebec's public finances and possible solutions

La pandémie de COVID-19 et ses effets sur les finances publiques du gouvernement du Québec 2020-2035 - Publié le October 26, 2020

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Raquel Fonseca, Bertrand Achou

Public Finance

Health at the heart of Quebec's economic recovery

La santé au cœur de la relance économique du Québec - Publié le September 3, 2020

Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Claude Montmarquette, Erin C. Strumpf, Mélanie Bourassa Forcier, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Maude Laberge, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Thomas G. Poder, Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Suzanne Bisaillon, Raphaël Godefroy

Health

Numeracy and labour market

Le lien entre les compétences en numératie et les rendements sur le marché du travail au Québec - Publié le June 2, 2021

Raquel Fonseca, Catherine Haeck, Marie Mélanie Fontaine

Education, Human Capital, Labour Market

Secular Evolution of the Wage Profile as a Function of Age and Polarization: A Comparative Analysis of the Quebec, Canadian and U.S. Labour Markets

Évolution séculaire du profil des salaires en fonction de l’âge : Québec, Canada et États-Unis - Publié le September 1, 2020

Raquel Fonseca, Benoit Dostie, Étienne Lalé, Genevieve Dufour

Labour Market, Human Capital