Vsevolod Iakovlev

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

R&R at Labour Economics

This paper investigates gender differences in labour market mismatch, specifically, over-education and over-skilling…

V. Iakovlev, C. Tealdi

Skill vs. education types of labour mismatch and their association with earnings

Accountancy, Economics, and Finance Working Papers

This work aims to determine whether the difference between skill and education-based measures of labour mismatch…

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…

R. Forshaw, V. Iakovlev, M. E. Schaffer, C. Tealdi

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…

A. Ahrens, E. Ersoy, V. Iakovlev, H. Li, M. E. Schaffer

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…

V. Iakovlev

2025-02-27

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…

V. Iakovlev

2024-12-11

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…

V. Iakovlev

2024-03-29