Ioana Marinescu


Ioana Elena Marinescu is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a columnist for Libération, whose research is widely covered in the popular media.

Research

Marinescu's research focuses on labor markets, including online job search, competition in the labor market, universal basic income, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and employment contracts.

Selected works

Marinescu has testified on competition in labor markets before the US House Judiciary Committee, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She advocates for increased scrutiny of mergers with respect to their labor market implications.