Department of Economics

Academic Staff

Dr. Sara Lemos
Lecturer

Room: Astley Clarke 209
Tel: 0116 252 2480
Email: SL129@le.ac.uk

Curriculum Vitae (Updated 18th September 2009)

Research Interests

• Labour economics, wages and employment in general and in particular minimum wage as well as economics of migration and economics of crime.
• Research papers can be downloaded via RePEc .

Representative Publications

• (forthcoming) "Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country", Labour Economics
   
• (forthcoming) "A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices", Journal of Economic Surveys
   
• (2007) "The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Private and Public Sectors in Brazil", Journal of Development Studies, 43(4):700-720.
   
• (2006) "Anticipated Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices " , Applied Economics, 38(3):325-337.
     
• (2005) "Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage " , Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 4(1):1-31 (article 16).

Current Teaching

• EC1008 : Solving Economic Problems
• EC2032 : Macroeconomics & Finance