Speakers

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Rhys Llewellyn Thomas

University of Southampton

Rhys is an applied Economist completing a PhD at the University of Southampton. His speciality is in applying econometric methods to health-related research questions. He has a particular interest in public policy and inequality, however, his job market paper has more of a behavioural focus. Before starting his PhD studies, Rhys obtained a BSc. and MSc. in Economics both also at the University of Southampton. During his PhD studies, Rhys has also spent some time at the Department for Education.

Anna Thoresson

Uppsala University and IFAU

Anna Thoresson is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University and IFAU. Anna's research interests are in labour economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on wage determination and wage differences. She is currently working on topics related to wages and monopsony power, and native-immigrant earnings gaps and firm productivity. Anna was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in autumn 2018. She holds a master’s degree in economics from UCL.

Johanna Tiedemann

University of Glasgow

Johanna Tiedemann is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Adam Smith Business School , University of Glasgow. Currently, she is part of the Fund Internship Programme 2020 at the International Monetary Fund. She works in the fields of Labour Economics and Macroeconomics and her research aims to understand factors that affect income risk and the underlying income dynamics and this is combined with real-policy evaluation to understand the mitigation of income risk in the United Kingdom. She applies empirical methods together with quantitative structural models to address questions of measurement of labour income risk, evaluation of insurance mechanisms, and the impact on labour market mobility. Tiedemann holds a MSc in Economic Development, with Merit from the University of Glasgow (2016) and a BSc in Economics and Business Economics from Maastricht University (2015).