Mikal Skuterud
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
Canada

Office: Hagey Hall 214
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext.32584
Fax: 519-725-0530
Email: skuterud at uwaterloo.ca

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Teaching

Winter 2010
Economics 422: Undergraduate microeconometrics [syllabus]
Economics 721: PhD econometrics [syllabus]

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Research

Working Papers

“Perinatal Family Labour Supply: Historical Trends and the Modern Experience.” [pdf]

“Immigrant Wage Assimilation and the Return to Foreign and Host-Country Sources of Human Capital” (with Mingcui Su). [pdf]

Published Papers

“The Visible Minority Wage Gap Across Generations of Canadians,” Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

“The Immigrant Wage Differential Within And Across Establishments,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 61(3), April 2008, 334-52 (with Abdurrahman Aydemir). [pdf]

“Identifying the Potential of Work-Sharing as a Job-Creation Strategy," Journal of Labor Economics, 25(2), April 2007. [pdf]

“The Impact of Sunday Shopping on Employment and Hours of Work in the Retail Industry: Evidence from Canada,” European Economic Review, 49(8), November 2005, 1953-78.[pdf]

“Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant Cohorts: 1966-2000,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 38(2), May 2005, 641-71 (with Abdurrahman Aydemir).[pdf]

“Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations,” American Economic Review, 94(1), March 2004, 218-32 (with Peter Kuhn). [pdf]

“Job Search Methods: Internet vs. Traditional,” Monthly Labor Review, October 2000, 3-11 (with Peter Kuhn).[pdf]

Other Papers

“Explaining the Increase in On-the-Job Search,” Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, Statistics Canada, 2005, no.250. [pdf]

“Describing the Distribution of Income: Guidelines for Effective Analysis,” Income Research Paper Series, Statistics Canada, 2005, no.10 (with Mark Frenette and Preston Poon).[pdf]

Work in Progress

“Immigrants and the Dynamics of High-Wage Jobs: Evidence from the Canadian Labour Force Survey” (with Mingcui Su).

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Other

Here is somewhat up-to-date version of my c.v. [pdf].

Here is some media commentary and coverage of my research. [html].

Being a father takes up most of my free time - that's Mats (left) and Finn (right) in the photo above. I also enjoy playing hockey and soccer, listening to Billy Bragg and Tom Waits, and making family movies for posterity.

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Links

Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network
CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre
Statistics Canada

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Last updated: February 4, 2009