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Iourii Manovskii is an assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania. His research is concentrated on macro and labor economics. Together with Gueorgui Kambourov he has shown that human capital of individuals is specific to the occupation in which they work (e.g., cook, accountant, chemical engineer) rather than being specific to their employer or industry. In a separate paper they documented a sharp increase in occupational mobility (fraction of workers switching occupations in a year) in the US over the 1968-1993 period. Using a calibrated general equilibrium model they further argue that the increase in the variability of productivity shocks to occupations from the 1960s to the 1990s, calibrated to the documented increase in occupational mobility, can account for over 80% of the increase in wage inequality in the US over the period. A distinguishing feature of their theory is that it accounts for changes in within group wage inequality and for the large increase in variability of transitory earnings.
In his current research, Iourii Manovskii explores the effects of a tax system on the accumulation and destruction of occupation specific human capital. In particular, he argues that, in the absence of complete insurance markets, progressive taxation of labor income may provide productivity and welfare gains as compared to a revenue-equivalent proportional tax.
He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in December 2002 and became a Research Fellow in July 2005. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Gueorgui Kambourov
Iourii Manovskii
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759) |
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Gueorgui Kambourov
Iourii Manovskii
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
(revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79) |
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