W. Craig Riddell

W. Craig Riddell is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia.  He is former Head of the Department of Economics at UBC, former Academic Co-Chair of the Canadian Employment Research Forum, and Past-President of the Canadian Economics Association. He currently holds a Royal Bank Faculty Research Professorship at UBC.

His research interests are in labour economics, labour relations and public policy. Current research is focused on unemployment and labour market dynamics, experimental and non-experimental approaches to the evaluation of social programs, unionization and collective bargaining, unemployment insurance and social assistance, and skill formation, education and training. He is also co-author (with Dwayne Benjamin and Morley Gunderson) of Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, Canada's leading labour economics textbook.