Dr Irina Merkurieva

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1952

Email

i.merkurieva@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr Irina Merkurieva joined the University of St Andrews as a lecturer (assistant professor) in 2014 after completing her PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and got tenure in 2018. She has previously worked at the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University.

Irina is a member and convenor of the Applied Microeconomics Group.

Personal website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~im58/

Teaching

EC4411 Labour Economics (Honours) and EC5203 Econometric Methods and Applicationa (MSc)

Research areas

Irina is a labour economist with research interests in the areas of retirement, informal employment, and executive compensation. Her work is grounded in life cycle models of labour supply and search and matching models. Irina's current research projects aim to understand the dynamics of executive compensation, the relationship between informal employment and retirement, and the effects of university subject choices on labour market outcomes across the life cycle. Her earlier work focused on the impact of involuntary job loss on the retirement decisions. She also investigated whether the coordination of retirement by couples can be attributed to leisure complementarities.

PhD supervision

• Pengkheang Yoeun
• Qunli Hu

Selected publications

• Open access

  Retirement coordination and leisure complementarity

  Merkurieva, I., Dec 2023, In: Labour Economics. 85

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Do efficient corporations overpay their chief executives?

  Chollete, L. G., Lu, C.-C. & Merkurieva, I., 5 Dec 2022, Online: SSRN, p. 1-56, 56 p.

  Research output: Working paper

• Do Frictions Matter in the Market for Chief Executives?

  Merkurieva, I. & Chollete, L. G., 2021.

  Research output: Working paper

• Open access

  Late career job loss and the decision to retire

  Merkurieva, I., 15 Feb 2019, In: International Economic Review. 60, 1, p. 259-282

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The implications of unintended pregnancies for mental health in later life

  Herd, P., Higgins, J., Sicinski, K. & Merkurieva, I., Mar 2016, In: American Journal of Public Health. 106, 3, p. 421-429 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Disability Incidence and Official Health Status Transitions in Russia

  Becker, C. & Merkurieva, I., 2012, In: Economics and Human Biology. 10, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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