Satoshi TANAKA

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Research Interests in Macroeconomics and Labor Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota

Email: s.tanaka.0509[at]gmail.com

Current Work

• Service Trade, Regional Specialization, and Welfare, [new version!] with Yuancheng Han and Jorge Miranda-Pinto.

  • Conditionally accepted at the Journal of International Economics.

• College Majors and Labor Market Mismatch [new draft coming soon!], with Michelle Rendall and Yi Zhang.

• Sex Ratios and Long-Term Marriage Trends [old version, new version coming soon!], with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull and Shannon Seitz.

• Changes in Wage Inequality Between- and Within-Firm: Evidence from Japan, 1993-2014, with Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi.

Publication

1. Occupational Reallocations within and across Firms: Implications for the Labor Market Polarization, with Toshi Mukoyama and Naoki Takayama.

   • Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 150, 103701, March 2025.

   • Presented at the 2024 Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy.

2. Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn, with Lawrence Warren and David Wiczer.

   • Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 135, pp 86-98, April 2023.

3. The Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 on Labor Markets: People’s Movement and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions, with K. Hoshi, H. Kasahara, R. Makioka, and M. Suzuki.

   • Journal of the Japanese and International Economies,  Vol. 63, 101170, March 2022.

4. Economic Impacts of SARS/MERS/COVID-19 in Asian Countries.

   • Asian Economic Policy Review,  Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 41-61, January 2022.

5. Trade-Off between Job Losses and the Spread of COVID-19 in Japan, with Kisho Hoshi, Hiro Kasahara, Ryo Makioka, and Michio Suzuki.

   • Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 72, Issue 4, pp. 683-716, October 2021.

6. Who Spent Their COVID-19 Stimulus Payment? Evidence from Personal Finance Software in Japan [Covid Economics] with Michiru Kaneda and So Kubota.

   • Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 72, Issue 3, pp. 409-437, January 2021.

   • Media: Nikkei (in Japanese), Asahi (in Japanese).

7. Multidimensional Skill Mismatch [NBER WP], with Fatih Guvenen, Burhan Kuruscu, and David Wiczer.

   • American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 210-244, January 2020.

   • Media: Bloomberg, Washington Post

8. Sectoral Shocks and Home Substitution, with Alessio Moro.

   • Economics Letters, Vol. 181, pp. 57-60, August 2019.

9. Does Home Production Drive Structural Transformation?, with Alessio Moro and Solmaz Moslehi.

   • American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 116-146, July 2017.

   • Media: Nikkei Business Online (in Japanese).

10. Marriage and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century, with Alessio Moro and Solmaz Moslehi.

    • Journal of Demographic Economics, Vol. 83, Issue 4, pp. 379-420, December 2017.

    • Cross-country data on marital statistics: GitHub.

Work in Progress

1. “Competitions among Cities,” with Yuancheng Han and Bo Zhao.

2. “Technological Change, Occupational Switches, and Intergenerational Mobility,” with Arpita Chatterjee, Yuancheng Han, and Aarti Singh.

3. "Single Mothers, Human Capital Investment in Children, and Economic Policies: a Macroeconomic Analysis", with Naoki Takayama.

Research Grant

1. Talent Mismatch: Evidence from Australian Administrative Tax Records, ARC Discovery Projects Research Grant (CI, AUD136,355), Australian Research Council, 2020.

2. Banks, Endogenous Network Formations and Financial Crisis, ARC Discovery Projects Research Grant (CI, AUD180,000), Australian Research Council, 2019.