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Biography
Jason Gagnon is a Junior Policy Analyst with the Poverty Reduction and Social Development group, focused particularly in the areas of migration, labour markets and development. In addition, Jason is a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics where he is studying the links between local sending-country labour markets and migration. Prior to joining the Development Centre in September of 2007, Jason has been a lecturer at the Pan-African Institute for Development in Douala, Cameroon, a financial consultant with Amity Bank Cameroon PLC and a financial auditor with the Office of the Auditor General of Canada and PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Besides his studies with the Paris School of Economics (DEA) where he wrote his Master thesis on the intertemporal determinants of migration, he has also completed graduate studies at the Stockholm School of Economics (MSc) and undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa (BComm), alongside shorter stays at the ESC-Grenoble and the Centre for Public Policy in Prague.
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Working Papers
> Are all Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China (2009)
OECD Development Centre Working Paper No. 278
By Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani and Chunbing Xing
Chapters & Studies
> Moving Out of Bad Jobs – More Mobility, More Opportunity (2009)
By Jason Gagnon
Chapter 5 in “Is Informal Normal? Towards More and Better Jobs in Developing Countries”, OECD Development Centre, 163 pp.
Articles in Journals
> Les migrations, une source de développement à exploiter (2008)
By Denis Drechsler and Jason Gagnon
Annuaire Suisse de Politique de Développement, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pages 73-89
Web Articles and Think Pieces
> Migration Management: The Developing Countries' Perspective (2008)
By Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Denis Drechsler and Jason Gagnon
Presented at the European Governance of Migration International Conference, September 17 - 19, 2008 in Berlin
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