M. TILL VON WACHTER CURRICULUM VITAE [e-mail] http://www.columbia.edu/~vw2112 Department of Economics Columbia University 1022 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street New York, NY 10027 Office Phone: [phone] Office Fax: [phone] Updated: August 2008
EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor Columbia University, Department of Economics (July 2003 present) Researcher (IPA), Division of Economic Research, Social Security Administration (July-September 2006, June-August 2007, January 2008) CURRENT RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA (January 2007 present) Research Associate, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK (January 2007 present) Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, (December 2003 present) Research Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Policy Research (ISERP), Columbia University, (November 2004 present) EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. FIELDS OF INTEREST Labor Economics, Economics of Aging, Personnel Economics, Macroeconomics PUBLICATIONS: In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers Careers (Joint with Stefan Bender, American Economic Review, December 2006, Vol. 96, No. 5: 1706-1719) Compulsory Schooling and Labour Market Institutions in Germany (Joint with Steve Pischke, Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 90, No. 3: 592598.) Entry-Cohort Effects at the Firm Level: Testing for Permanent vs. Transitory Effects using Evidence from Job Changers (Joint with Stefan Bender, Forthcoming in: J. Lane, S. Bender, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, F. Andersson, and T. von Wachter (eds.), "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, University of Chicago Press). Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy (Joint with Julian di Giovanni and Justin McCrary, Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, IMF WP/05/86)
Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley (May 2003) Economics University of Bonn, Germany, Summa cum laude (August 1997)
WORKING PAPERS: JOB DISPLACEMENT
(Abstract & Papers Available at www.columbia.edu/~vw2112)
Mortality, Mass Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data (Joint with Dan Sullivan, NBER Working Paper 13626, Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics) Estimating the 'True' Cost of Job Loss: Evidence Using Matched Data from California 1991-2000 (Joint with Andrew Hildreth and Elizabeth Weber-Handwerker) Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using Longitudinal Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004 (Joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester) Summary of the Literature on Job Displacement in the US and EU: What we know and what we would like to know (prepared for European Commission, DG Employment) The Very Long-Term Effect of Mass-Layoffs in Germany on Earnings and Employment (Joint with Johannes Schmieder, in progress) Why Initial Conditions Matter Testing for Alternative Explanations Using Mass-Layoffs (Joint with Johannes Schmieder and Stefan Bender, in progress) Career Transitions and Firm Quality of Early Job Losers (Joint with Katja Grlitz and Stefan Bender, in progress) LONG-TERM LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS Notes on Earnings Dynamics in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s Based on Administrative Earnings Records, (Joint with Wojciech Kopczuk) The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates , (joint with Phil Oreopoulos and Andrew Heisz, NBER WP No. 12159) Does a Four-Fold Early Unemployment Rate Make a Difference? Wage Growth and Job Mobility in Germany, France, and the United States (Joint with Paola Giuliano) DISABILITY AND AGING The End of Mandatory Retirement in the US: Effects on Retirement and Implicit Contracts (Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 49, University of California Berkeley, 2002) The Recent Increase in Social Security Disability Rolls and the Change in Economic Status of Applicants, New Entrants, and Denied Workers: An Analysis using Longitudinal Administrative Records, (Joint with Jae Song and Joyce Manchester, Presented at APPAM 2006 Madison, WI) The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Employment of Workers Nearing Retirement Age (prepared for Sandell Grant, Boston Retirement Research Consortium & Social Security Administration) GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2008 German Science Foundation, Follow-Up Grant Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labor markets: Within Firm Cohort Effects, (Joint with Stefan Bender and Thomas Bauer) 2007 Grant from Retirement Research Consortium, Social Security Administration, The Employment Effects of Changing Social Security Disability Rolls over the Past 25 Years 2006 Steve H. Sandell Grant Outsourcing, Deindustrialization, and Technological Change: The Effect of Changes in Labor Demand on Retirement Outcomes of Older Workers 2006 German Science Foundation, Two Year Grant Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labor markets: Within Firm Cohort Effects, (Joint with Stefan Bender and Thomas Bauer) 2006 ISERP Seed Grant Outsourcing, Deindustrialization, and Technological Change: The Effect of Changes in Labor Demand on Older Workers
2005 2005 -2009 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2002 - 2003 2001 - 2002 2000 - 2001 2000 Spring 1999 Spring 1997 - 1998
Columbia University, Summer Research Grant National Science Foundation Grant Search, Firms, and Human Capital Job Loss and the Shaping of Young Workers Careers (sole PI) PER Seed Grant Retirement, Death, and Job Loss in the United States ISERP Seed Grant School Peer-Group Choice, Effects, and the End of Desegregation (Joint with Atila Abdulkadiroglu) Columbia University, Summer Research Grant PER Research Assistantship Grant (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroglu) Program for Economic Research (PER) Columbia University Research Assistantship Grant (Joint with Wojciech Kopczuk) Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Labor and Employment Program in Applied Economics Fellowship, Social Science Research Council Fellowship from Network of Inequality and Poverty in Further Perspective Continuing Student Fellowship, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley Eliot J. Swan Prize for Best Performance in the First-Year Curriculum, UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Consultant, Linked Employer Employee Data, European Commission, Directorate General Employment Bi-Annual Research Visits, German Social Security Administration (Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeit, Forschungsdatenzentrum) Visiting Scholar, Center for Health and Well Being, Princeton University Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research Visiting Scholar, Center for Economic Performance, LSE Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan Visiting Scholar, German Social Security Administration Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Labor, University of Bonn Visiting Student, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University Graduate Research Intern, European Central Bank Research on the role of service sector growth in European unemployment Research Intern, Ente Luigi Einaudi, Bank of Italy Research on the role of age discrimination labor force attachment POLICY RESEARCH The Role of Service and Manufacturing Sectors in Cross Country Growth (European Central Bank Working Paper No. 50, 2001) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Department of Economics, Columbia University Graduate Labor Economics (Spring 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008) Undergraduate Econometrics (Spring 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008) Department of Economics, LUISS Rome Applied Microeconomics (Short Course in Italian, Spring 2005) Department of Economics, UC Berkeley Graduate Introduction to Econometrics, Professor Jim Powell (Spring 1999) Department of Economics, University of Bonn
March 2007-January 2008 2002-present January-May 2007 September-December 2006 June 2006 November-December 2005 Bi-Annual Research Visits July 2004, 2005 August 2000-June 2001 June-August 1999 July-August 2001
Introduction to Macroeconomics, Professor Axel Weber (1994-1995)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Presentations 2008 European Commission Directorate General Employment Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) Conference Brussels, LEED Research Conference Brussels, Social Security Administration Washington DC, Retirement Research Consortium Annual Conference Washington DC 2007 Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley Labor Lunch, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, Columbia University Social Work, University of Warwick, Oxford University, University College London Epidemiology, Prague, Milan Catholic University, New York Federal Reserve, Princeton University, University of Texas Houston/Rice, Texas A&M, SUNY Albany, University of Connecticut, Columbia University Economics, National Bureau of Economics Summer Institute, Retirement Research Consortium Annual Conference, APPAM 2007, RWI Essen, NBER Higher Education Conference 2006 NBER Summer Institute, University of Florida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Columbia University, London School of Economics, Humboldt University, Paris I/Sorbonne, INSEE/Crest, Bocconi/IGIER, MILLS Workshop, University College London, Pompeu Fabra, Dartmouth, CAED 2006 Chicago, CAFE 2006 Nurnberg, APPAM 2006 Madison, Boston University, University of Toronto, Dartmouth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Tufts, IZA Workshop 2005 NBER Summer Institute, CEPR Education Meeting Uppsala, Wharton Business School Careers Conference, University of California Berkeley, Cornell, University of Maryland, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan, Stanford University, University of California Los Angeles, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Universita Tor Vergata, Bank of Italy 2004 SOLE 2004, ESSLE 2004, CEPR/ECB Labor Market Meeting 2004, University of California Santa Cruz, Symposium at Institute of Employment Research (IAB), Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2003 Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of Rochester, University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, Yale School of Management, University of California San Diego, London School of Economics, University College London, University of Oxford, IZA, University of Washington, McMaster University, University of Montreal Affiliations American Economic Association, European Economic Association, Econometric Society, Royal Economic Society, European Association of Labour Economists, Society of Labor Economists American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Industrial Labor Relations Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Labour Economics, Labour, German Economic Review
Referee
LANGUAGES: German (native), Italian (native), French (fluent) REFERENCES Professor David Card Department of Economics University of California Berkeley 549 Evans Hall #3880 Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Professor Janet Currie Department of Economics Columbia University 420 W 118th Street 1022 IAB New York, NY 10027
Professor Daniel McFadden Department of Economics University of California Berkeley 549 Evans Hall #3880 Berkeley, CA 94720-3880