Marieke Kleemans
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marieke Kleemans is an applied microeconomist with research interests in development economics and labor economics working on topics related to migration, structural transformation, human capital, and female labor force participation. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley.
Recent work by Marieke Kleemans
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How internal migration affects the workers left behind
Internal migration in Indonesia raises wages and improves access to formal employment for the workers left behind, particularly lower-educated workers, by easing labour supply pressures and reallocating jobs across the formal and informal sector.
Published 13.01.26
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Long-term and intergenerational effects of education
Evidence from Indonesia shows school construction improves labour and marriage market outcomes, and benefits are transmitted intergenerationally
Published 03.05.19
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How do domestic migrants impact local labour markets in developing countries?
Low-skilled natives tend to be most affected by low-skilled migrants, but are high-skilled natives most affected by high-skilled migrants?
Published 31.01.19
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Agricultural productivity and rural-urban wage gaps revisited: Lessons from panel data
Cities don't make workers (much) more productive, but productive workers move to cities
Published 30.07.18