Department 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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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
Research Fellow,
IZA Institute for Labor Economics
, 2017 – present
Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
, 2015 – present
Research Interests
Labour Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Economics of Immigration, Hours of Work
Education
Ph.D.
- Economics, McMaster University (2002)
Masters
- Economics, University of British Columbia (1997)
Combined Honours B.A.
- Economics and Labour Studies, McMaster University (1996)
Published Papers
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
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
ECON 321 - Econometrics Analysis 1, 2010-2015
ECON 323 - Econometrics Analysis 2, 2020-2021
ECON 351 - Labour Economics, 2005-2010, 2014-2021
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