Mikal Skuterud, Professor of Economics

Mikal Skuterud

Department of Economics
University of Waterloo
phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 32584
email: skuterud@uwaterloo.ca
twitter: @mikalskuterud

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Employment

Full Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, July 2018 -- present
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, July 2011 -- June 2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, August 2005 -- June 2011
Senior Research Economist, Family and Labour Studies Division, Statistics Canada, September 2002 -- July 2005

Affiliations

Director, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), 2022 -- present
Fellow-in-Residence, Rogers Philips Scholar of Social Policy, C.D. Howe Institute, 2023 -- present
Research Fellow, IZA Institute for Labor Economics, 2017 -- present

Research Interests

Labour economics, economics of immigration, hours of work

Education

Ph.D. - Economics, McMaster University, 2002
Master's - Economics, University of British Columbia, 1997
Combined Honours B.A. - Economics and Labour Studies, McMaster University, 1996

Published Papers

The Economics of Canadian Immigration Levels (with Matthew Doyle and Christopher Worswick), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

The Transformation of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (with Ian O'Donnell), Canadian Public Policy 48(4), December 2022, 518-532.

The Pandemic and Short-Run Changes in Output, Hours Worked and Labour Productivity: Canadian Evidence by Industry (with Joel Blit and Michael Veall), International Productivity Monitor 39, Fall 2020, 16-32.

Initial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Canadian Labour Market (with Thomas Lemieux, Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle), Canadian Public Policy, S1, July 2020, S55-S65.

Can Skilled Immigration Raise Innovation? Evidence From Canadian Cities (with Joel Blit and Jue Zhang), Journal of Economic Geography 20(4), July 2020, pp. 879-901.

The Relative Academic Achievement of International Students: Evidence from an Ontario University (with Jongjia Chen), Canadian Public Policy, March 2020.

A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter? (with Andrew Clarke and Ana Ferrer), Journal of Labor Economics, July 2019.

An Analysis of the Patenting Rates of Canada’s Ethnic Populations (with Joel Blit and Jue Zhang), Canadian Public Policy, November 2018.

The Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students: Evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey (with Jongjia Chen), Canadian Public Policy, September 2018.

The Effect of Labor Relations Laws on Unionization Rates Within the Labor Force: Evidence from the Canadian Provinces (with Scott Legree and Tammy Schirle), Industrial Relations, September 2017.

A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Skills and Their Utilization in Australia, Canada, and the United States (with Andrew Clarke), Journal of Population Economics, September 2016.

Can Labour Relations Reform Reduce Wage Inequality? Evidence from the Canadian Provinces (with Scott Legree and Tammy Schirle), Income Inequality: The Canadian Story, eds., David Green, Craig Riddell and France St. Hilaire, 2016.

Gone Fishing! Reported Sickness Absenteeism and the Weather (with Jingye Shi), Economic Inquiry, January 2015.

Why Do Immigrant Workers in Australia Perform Better Than Those in Canada? Is it the Immigrants or Their Labour Markets? (with Andrew Clarke), Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2013.

The Influence of Measurement Error and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Estimating Immigrant Returns to Foreign and Host-Country Sources of Human Capital (with Mingcui Su), Empirical Economics (with Mingcui Su), December 2012.

Immigrants and the Dynamics of High-Wage Jobs (with Mingcui Su), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2012.

Language and Immigrant Labour Market Performance: What Does the Economics Literature Tell Us?, International Settlement Canada, Spring 2012.

The Visible Minority Wage Gap Across Generations of Canadians, Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2010.

The Immigrant Wage Differential Within and Across Establishments (with Abdurrahman Aydemir), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 2008.

Identifying the Potential of Work-Sharing as a Job-Creation Strategy, Journal of Labor Economics, April 2007.

The Impact of Sunday Shopping on Employment and Hours of Work in the Retail Industry: Evidence from Canada, European Economic Review, November 2005.

Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant Cohorts: 1966-2000 (with Abdurrahman Aydemir), Canadian Journal of Economics, May 2005.

Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations (with Peter Kuhn), American Economic Review, March 2004.

Job Search Methods: Internet vs. Traditional (with Peter Kuhn), Monthly Labor Review, October 2000.

Sleeping Papers

Language Skills in the New Economy and the Deteriorating Labour Market Performance of Canada's Immigrant Workers, September 2011.

Perinatal Family Labour Supply: Historical Trends and the Modern Experience, February 2007.

Other Papers

Explaining the Increase in On-the-Job Search, October 2004.

Describing the Distribution of Income: Guidelines for Effective Analysis (with Marc Frenette and Preston Poon), February 2007.

Policy Briefs

A Multi-Pronged Strategy for Managing Canada's Surging Non-Permanent Resident Population, CD Howe Intelligence Memo, January 11, 2024 (with Parisa Mahboubi).

Shrinking Canada’s NPR Population: How Best to Do It, CD Howe Intelligence Memo, April 17, 2024 (with Parisa Mahboubi).

Canada’s Missing Workers: Temporary Residents Working in Canada, CD Howe E-Brief, September 7, 2023.

The Unintended Consequences of Category-Based Immigrant Selection, CD Howe Intelligence Memo, February 6, 2023 (with Parisa Mahboubi).

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Data Shortage, CD Howe Intelligence Memo, June 23, 2022 (with Ian O'Donnell).

Unemployment is down, but there are still issues, IRPP Policy Options, June 22, 2021 (with Fabian Lange).

Digging One Level Deeper into March's Workforce Numbers, CD Howe Institute, April 14, 2020 (with Tammy Schirle and Kevin Milligan).

What April's Jobs Data Shows for The Future , CD Howe Institute, May 13, 2020 (with Tammy Schirle and Kevin Milligan).

Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on the Labour Market , CD Howe Institute, June 12, 2020 (with Thomas Lemieux and Tammy Schirle).

The Moms Are Not All Right , CD Howe Institute, July 15, 2020 (with Tammy Schirle).

Job Search, New Jobs, and What it Means for Future Policy , CD Howe Institute, August 12, 2020 (with Tammy Schirle).

Re-opening and Re-closing the Economy Strategically , CD Howe Institute, August 21, 2020 (with Joel Blit and Chuanmo Jin).

The Challenge of Designing Income Support Programs for the Self-Employed , CD Howe Institute, September 22, 2020 (with Tammy Schirle).

Long-term Joblessness: A Significant Policy Challenge on the Horizon? , CD Howe Institute, October 20, 2020 (with Tammy Schirle).

Canadian Stats and Two-Step Immigration , Policy Options, Institute for Resesarch on Public Policy, December 19, 2016.

Success for Express Entry Applicants Weighs Heavily on Job Offers , New Canadian Media, July 2, 2015.

Teaching

University of Waterloo, Department of Economics

ECON 101 - Introduction to Microeconomics, 2019-2023
ECON 321 - Econometrics Analysis 1, 2010-2015
ECON 323 - Econometrics Analysis 2, 2020-2022
ECON 351 - Labour Economics, 2005-2010, 2014-2021, 2023
ECON 421 - Econometric Theory, 2012-2014, 2017
ECON 422 - Topics In Econometrics, 2006-2007, 2009, 2010
ECON 601 - Graduate Microeconomic Theory, 2005-2006
ECON 622/722 - Applied Microeconometrics, 2006, 2008, 2011-2016
ECON 651 - Graduate Labour Economics, 2011-2013, 2019–2020
ECON 721 - Econometrics II, 2006, 2010

McMaster University, Department of Economics

ECON 2T3 - Economics of Trade Unions, 1998 - 2000

Brock University, Department of Economics

ECON SP15 - Economics of Unions, 1999
ECON 3P24 - Intermediate Labour Economics, 1999 – 2000
ECON 3P25 - Topics in Labour Economics, 2000