Vsevolod Iakovlev

CV

I’m a Research Associate in Economics at Heriot-Watt University, specializing in applied economics.

My current projects explore:

  • transport economics
  • educational and skill mismatch
  • gender wage gap
  • two-sided matching
  • applications of machine learning in economics

Research

Matched or Mismatched? Unpacking Gender Mismatch Gaps with Machine Learning
This paper investigates gender differences in labour market mismatch, specifically, over-education and over-skilling, using rich microdata from the OECD’s Survey of Adult…
V. Iakovlev, C. Tealdi
Jul 22, 2025

Skill vs. education types of labour mismatch and their association with earnings
Work in progress
This work aims to determine whether the difference between skill and education-based measures of labour mismatch affects the estimates of the labour mismatch-earnings…
V. Iakovlev
Dec 16, 2024

Using machine learning methods to estimate the gender wage gap
The Gender Wage Gap (GWG) is a classic topic in labour economics. Simply put, how do we explain the observed gap in earnings between men and women? Traditionally the GWG has…
R. Forshaw, V. Iakovlev, M. E. Schaffer, C. Tealdi
Jun 2, 2024

An introduction to stacking regression for economists
We present an introduction to “stacked generalization” (Wolpert in Neural Networks 5(2):241–259, 1992 [21]). The increased availability of “Big Data” in economics and the…
A. Ahrens, E. Ersoy, V. Iakovlev, H. Li, M. E. Schaffer
Jan 1, 2022
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Code

mismatch_toolbox
Labout Mismatch Toolbox for PIAAC
This package provides a set of functions designed to compute education and skill-based labour mismatch using data from the 1st Cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC).…
V. Iakovlev
Feb 27, 2025

dap_mrs
Deferred Acceptance with Marginal Rate of Substitution
This module is a python implementation of the deferred acceptance procedure (DAP) developed by Gale and Shapley (1962). The algorithm computes an applicant-optimal…
V. Iakovlev
Dec 11, 2024

toysimlm
Toy Microsimulation of Labour Mismatch
This module implements a simple microsimulation of labour mismatch based on a static version of the two-sided matching model developed by Zinn (2012). The purpose of the…
V. Iakovlev
Mar 29, 2024
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