University Assistant

Iourii Manovskii

: Curriculum Vitae

Department of Economics

University of Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Office: 215-***-****

Cell: 917-***-****

Fax: 215-***-****

E-mail:

abozgd@r.postjobfree.com

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

.

Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008 - present

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Research Affiliate, Center for Economic Policy Research, 2009 - 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

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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-****-****,

2004-2005, 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-****-****, 2004-2005, co-applicant

(with Gueorgui Kambourov and Miana Plesca).

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

Publications

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

Kambourov.

International Economic Review. 49

Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK.

Research Papers

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

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

Bruegemann, April 2010.

The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility, with Fane Groes and Philipp Kircher, April 2010.

Taxation and Unemployment in Models with Heterogeneous Workers, with Marcus Hagedorn and

Sergiy Stetsenko, April 2010.

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

Occupational Mobility and the Returns to Training, with Gueorgui Kambourov amd Miana

Plesca, April 2010.

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

October 2009.

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

Work in Progress

The Dynamic Effects of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances in Models with

Heterogeneous Inputs, with Luigi Bocola and Marcus Hagedorn.

Excessive Risk Taking, with Marcus Hagedorn.

Measuring the Returns to Tenure and Experience and the Effect of Search Frictions on Wage

Dispersion, 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,

Universite du Quebec a Montreal.2009-2010

University of California Los Angeles, University of California Santa Barbara,

Columbia University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University,

University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Sciences Po and Paris School of

Economics,

Washington University in St. Louis and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

2010-2011

University of Aarhus, Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm

University.

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, 2010.

Society for Economic Dynamics, Annual Meeting, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010.

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, 2009, 2010.

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

University of Pennsylvania:

Graduate Topics in Macro: Models with Heterogeneous Agents, fall 2010.

Graduate Quantitative Macroeconomic Theory, fall 2008.

International Economics: fall 2003, fall 2004, fall 2006, fall 2008, spring 2010.

International Trade: fall 2006, fall 2007, spring 2010.

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

Main Thesis Advisor:

Sergiy Stetsenko (2010).

Thesis Committee Member of:

Yasuo (Yaz) Terajima (2004),?

Lodewijk (Ludo) Visschers (2007),

Key Muraki (2009),

Hans Halter (2011, expected),

Janet Lee (2011, expected),

Serdar Ozkan (2011, expected),

Cesar Santos (2011, expected),

Serhiy Stepanchuk (2011, expected),

Allan Diziolli (2012, expected),

Yasar (Fatih) Karahan (2012, expected).

Professional activity

Referee for:

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, 2006-2010.

Honors Thesis Committee, 2007, 2008.

Graduate Examination Committee, 2009-2010.

Professional Associations

American Economics Association, Canadian Economics Association,

Econometric Society, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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