Iourii Manovskii: Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Contact Information

 

Department of Economics

University of Pennsylvania

160 McNeil Building

3718 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

 

 

Office: (215) 898-6880

Cell: (917) 476-8836

Fax: (215) 573-2057

E-mail:

manovski@econ.upenn.edu

URL:

http://www.econ.upenn.edu/~manovski/

 

Citizenship: Canada, Moldova, US O-1 visa.

 

Major Areas of Research: Macro and Labor Economics.

 

Education

 

 

Degree

Field

Institution

Year

Ph.D.

Economics

University of Western Ontario

2004

M.A.

Economics

University of Western Ontario

1998

M.A.

Economics

Vanderbilt University

1997

B.A.

Economics

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

1995

Non-Degree

Economics

Odessa Institute of National Economy, Ukraine

1992

 

Dissertation

 

Documenting Occupational Specificity of Human Capital and Exploring its Equilibrium Implications.

Advisors: Andres Erosa and Gustavo Ventura. 

 

Current Positions

 

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, July 2003 - present.

 

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, 2008 - present.

 

Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, July 2005 - present.

 

Past Positions

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, September 2005 - June 2006.

 

Visiting Scholar, European Central Bank, January 2007.

 

Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, September 2002, Aug. 2005, Aug. 2006.

 

Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, December 2003.

 

Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Dec. 2003-July 2005.

 

Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, 1999- 2001.

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2001-2.

 

Research Assistant to Professors Paul Klein, Miguel Molico, Terry Sicular,

Gustavo Ventura, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, 1997-2003.

 

Research Assistant to Professor Junsoo Lee, Vanderbilt University, summers 1996, 1997.

 

Academic Awards and Fellowships

 

TM Brown Thesis Prize for best doctoral dissertation in Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2005.

 

Review of Economic Studies European Meetings (REStud Tour), 2003.

 

Special University Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, 1997-2002.

 

International Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, 1997-2002.

 

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Western Ontario, 1997-2002.

 

Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 1995-1997.

 

University Tuition Scholarship, Vanderbilt University, 1995-1996.

 

Award for the Best Thesis in Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in 1995.

 

University Scholarship, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, 1991-1995.

 

Research Grants

 

National Science Foundation Grant No. SES-0922406 Macroeconomics of Occupational Mobility:

New Facts, Theory, and Quantitative Evaluation, 2009-20012.

 

National Science Foundation Grant No. SES-0617876 Macro Perspectives on the Labor Market, 2006-2009.

 

University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant, Accounting for the

Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings, 2005-2006.

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Initiative on the New

Economy (joint with the Department of Human Resources and Skills

Development, and Industry Canada), Skills Research Initiative on Labour

Market and Skills Implications of Population Aging, Grant #537-2004-0016,

2004-2005, co-applicant (with Gueorgui Kambourov and Miana Plesca).

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Initiative on the New

Economy (joint with the Department of Human Resources and Skills

Development, and Industry Canada), Skills Research Initiative on Employer-

Supported Training, Grant #537-2004-0013, 2004-2005, co-applicant

(with Gueorgui Kambourov and Miana Plesca).

 

Two research grants from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, 1995.

 

Publications

 

Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality, with Gueorgui Kambourov.

Review of Economic Studies, 76 (2) April 2009, pp. 731-759.

 

Occupational Specificity of Human Capital, with Gueorgui Kambourov.

International Economic Review, 50 (1) February 2009, pp. 63-115.

 

The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Revisited, with Marcus Hagedorn.

American Economic Review, 98 (4), September 2008, pp. 1692-1706.

 

Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1997, with Gueorgui Kambourov.

International Economic Review. 49 (1) February 2008, pp. 41-79.

 

Families and Careers, with Gueorgui Kambourov and Irina Telyukova.

In Frontiers in Family Economics, Volume 1, edited by P. Rupert, pp. 217-256, 2008.

Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK.

 

Research Papers

 

The Price of Experience, with Hyeok Jeong and Yong Kim, August 2008.

 

Taxation and Unemployment in Models with Heterogeneous Workers, with Marcus Hagedorn and Sergiy Stetsenko, April 2009.

 

Spot Wages over the Business Cycle? with Marcus Hagedorn, August 2009.

 

Productivity and the Labor Market: Co-Movement over the Business Cycle, with Marcus Hagedorn, August 2009.

 

The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility, with Philipp Kircher and Fane Naja Groes, September 2009.

 

Accounting for the Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings, with Gueorgui Kambourov, June 2005.

 

The Returns to Government Sponsored Training, with Gueorgui Kambourov amd Miana Plesca, September 2009.

 

A Cautionary Note on Using (March) CPS Data to Study Worker Mobility, with Gueorgui Kambourov, April 2009.

 

Productivity Gains from Progressive Taxation of Labor Income, October 2002.

 

Work in Progress

 

Fragility: A Quantitative Analysis of the US Health Insurance System, with Bjoern Bruegemann.

 

Estimating the Returns to Seniority: Measuring Match-Specific Capital, with Marcus Hagedorn.

 

Partnerships, with Elena Krasnokutskaya and Ludwig Ressner.

 

Pyramids, with Guillaume Vandenbroucke.

 

The Cyclical Behavior of Worker Reallocation, with Marcus Hagedorn and Gueorgui Kambourov.

 

Worker Mobility in the United States and Germany: A Primer, with Marcus Hagedorn and Gueorgui Kambourov.

 

Transitional Dynamics of Transitional Economies: Why are they so Different? with Irina Telyukova.

 

Invited Seminars

 

2002-2004

Atlanta FED, Bank of Canada, University of Calgary, University of California-Davis,

Carleton University, University of Guelph, London School of Economics,

University of Minnesota, Universite de Montreal, Minneapolis FED,

Northwestern University with Chicago FED, Richmond FED, University of Pennsylvania,

Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Queen’s University, Simon Fraser University,

University of Southern California, Tilburg University, University of Waterloo,

University of Western Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University.

 

2004-2005

New York University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania,

University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Pennsylvania State University,

University of Texas-Austin, Vanderbilt University, University of Western Ontario.

 

2005-2006

Arizona State University, University of Chicago, University of British Columbia,

University of California Los Angeles, Chicago FED, Georgetown University,

University of Maryland, New York FED, Simon Fraser University,

University of Southern California, Stanford University.

 

2006-2007

Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, St. Louis FED,

University of Wisconsin, CEMFI (Spain), Yale University.

 

2007-2008

University of Alberta - Edmonton, Atlanta Fed, University of California - Berkeley

Haas School of Business, University of California - San Diego, Cleveland Fed,

NYU Econ-Stern macro lunch, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill,

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Fed, University of Toronto.

 

2008-2009

Boston University, University of Kansas, Ohio State, Pennsylvania State University,

Université du Québec à Montréal.

 

2009-2010

Columbia University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University.

 

Conference Discussions

 

Econometric Society Winter Meetings, New Orleans, January 2008.

Discussed "Wage Rigidity and Job Creation,"

by Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag, and Thijs van Rens.

 

American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association meeting, New Orleans, January 2008.

Discussed "The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction over the

Size Distribution of Cities," by Nancy Wallace and Donald Walls.

 

NBER Rogerson-Shimer-Wright Group Meeting at the Chicago Fed, March 2007.

Discussed Comparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment,

by Mark Bils, Yongsung Chang and Sun-Bin Kim.

 

NBER Rogerson-Shimer-Wright Group Meeting at the Cleveland Fed, Oct. 2005.

Discussed More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations,

by Dale Mortensen and Eva Nagypal.

 

Philadelphia Workshop on Monetary and Macroeconomics, March 2004.

Discussed Aggregate Worker Reallocation and Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1976-2000,

by Giuseppe Moscarini and Francis Vella.

 

Canadian Economic Association, 35th Annual Meeting, Montreal, June 2001.

Discussed Technological Change, the Minimum Wage, and Welfare,

by Burhanettin Kuruscu.

 

Conference Presentations (in several cases joint papers presented by a co-author)

 

National Bureau of Economic Research, Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, October 2009.

 

"Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Labor Market," CREI and the Kiel Institute for the World

Economy Conference, Barcelona, October 2009.

 

"Health and the Macroeconomy," Conference at the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF)

at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2009.

 

"Current Topics in Macroeconomic Theory and Policy," Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) ,

Vienna, Austria, October 2009.

 

"Applications of Structural Microeconomics," Cowles Foundation Summer Conference, Yale University, June 2009.

 

"Recent Developments in Macroeconomics," Conference at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, June 2009.

 

Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, August 2005, 2008, July 2009.

 

National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009.

 

Society for Economic Dynamics, Annual Meeting, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009.

 

Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group Conference, Toronto, November 2003, 2008, 2009.

 

Midwest Macro Meetings, May 2008, 2009

 

New York/Philadelphia Workshop on Quantitative Macroeconomics, April 2008, April 2009

 

Search and Matching Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009.

 

Research on Money and Markets Workshop, University of Toronto, September 2008.

 

CEPR European Summer Symposium on International Macroeconomics, Tarragona, Spain, May 2006.

 

Bank of Canada, University of Western Ontario, and Queen’s University joint Workshop on

"Labor Supply and Productivity over the Life Cycle," Ottawa, April 2006.

 

Prague-Budapest Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, June 2005.

 

Philadelphia Workshop on Monetary and Macroeconomics, April 2005.

 

Canadian Economic Association, May 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005.

 

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), August 2004.

 

Cleveland FED Workshop on Human Capital, August 2004.

 

Invited Society for Economic Dynamics session at the American Economic Association

Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 2004.

 

Review of Economic Studies European Meetings, London, May 2003.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

University of Pennsylvania:

Graduate Quantitative Macroeconomic Theory, fall 2008.

International Economics: fall 2003, fall 2004, fall 2006, fall 2008.

International Trade: fall 2006, fall 2007.

University of Chicago: International Economics, fall 2005.

University of Western Ontario:

Instructor

Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and Policy II, summer 2001.

Income Distribution and Poverty, fall 2000, summer 2000, summer 1999.

 

Teaching Assistant

Economic Development II, Professor Clark Leith, spring 2002.

Income Distribution and Poverty, Professor Ian Skaith, fall 2001.

 

Ph.D. Students Supervised at the University of Pennsylvania

 

Thesis Committee Member of:

Yasuo (Yaz) Terajima (2004),

Lodewijk (Ludo) Visschers (2007),

Sergiy Stetsenko (2010, expected).

 

Professional activity

 

Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics.

 

Referee for: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Review,

B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrica,

Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review,

Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European

Economic Association, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Labor Economics,

Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking,

Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics,

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies,

Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal, National Science Foundation,

Swiss National Science Foundation, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford University Press.

 

Program Committee member:

 

2009 Society for Economic Dynamics meetings in Istanbul, Turkey,

 

2008 Society for Economic Dynamics meetings in Cambridge, MA,

 

2008 Midwest Macro meetings in Philadelphia, PA.

 

Co-organizer of the Money/Macro Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, fall 2004, 2006-2009.

 

Administrative Assignments at the University of Pennsylvania

 

Graduate Admissions Committee, 2004, 2006-2009.

Honors Thesis Committee, 2007, 2008.

Graduate Examination Committee, 2009.

 

Professional Associations

 

American Economics Association, Canadian Economics Association,

Econometric Society, Society for Economic Dynamics.

 

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