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Damir Stijepic

Damir Stijepic, PhD

Johannes Gutenberg University
Johannes-von-Müller-Weg 2
55128 Mainz, Germany

Phone: +49(0)6131-39-25064
Email: damir@stijepic.com

Research

Working Papers

Educational Disparity in Job Mobility: The Great Trend Reversal
September 2022, R&R at Labour Economics, Slides

International Differences in the Effect of Skills on Job Mobility: A Schumpeterian Perspective
August 2022, R&R at Applied Economics Letters, Slides

Skills, Job Mobility and Productive Efficiency
August 2018

Technology Diffusion, Worker Mobility and the Returns to Skills
January 2015

Open It And They Will Come? The Impact of Fallen Barriers on Securities Market Participation
April 2017

Trade Openness and the Skill Premium—An Inverted-'U' Relation?
June 2016

Small Employers, Large Employers and the Skill Premium over the Business Cycle
November 2018

Publications

Workplace Heterogeneity and the Returns to Versatility. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, vol. 22(2), 2022, pp. 483–508.
Working Paper (May 2021)

A Cross-Country Study of Skills and Unemployment Flows. Journal for Labour Market Research, vol. 55, 2021, article 9.
Working Paper (January 2021)

Trends and Cycles in U.S. Job Mobility. The Manchester School, vol. 89(2), 2021, pp. 203–222.
Working Paper (July 2020), Slides

Employment Effects of Skills around the World: Evidence from the PIAAC. International Labour Review, vol. 159(3), 2020, pp. 307–338.
Working Paper (September 2019)

Job Mobility and Sorting: Theory and Evidence. Journal of Economics and Statistics, vol. 240(1), 2020, pp. 19–49.
Working Paper (October 2018), Code

A Note on Laws of Motion for Aggregate Distributions. Theoretical Economics Letters, vol. 10(6), 2020, pp. 1358–1371.
Working Paper (September 2020)

The Impact of the Productivity Dispersion across Employers on the Labor's Income Share. Economics Bulletin, vol. 39(1), 2019, pp. 73–83.
Working Paper (December 2018)

Globalization, Worker Mobility and Wage Inequality. Review of International Economics, vol. 25(1), 2017, pp. 108–131.
Working Paper (July 2016)

Small Employers, Large Employers and the Skill Premium. Economics Bulletin, vol. 36(1), 2016, pp. 381–387.
Working Paper (January 2016)

Teaching

Advanced Macroeconomics (graduate level), Theoretical Labour Economics (graduate level), Empirical Labour Economics (graduate level), Current Issues in International Trade (graduate level), Static Optimization (graduate level), Statistics (undergraduate level), Quantitative Methods (undergraduate level)

Refereeing

Nature Human Behaviour, Journal for Labour Market Research, Labour Economics, Empirical Economics, Review of International Economics, German Economic Review, Journal of Economic Structures, Manchester School, World Economy, Economics Bulletin, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Bulletin of Economic Research, International Journal of Economic Theory, Foresight

Honors, Fellowships and Grants

Seed Grant of the Johannes Gutenberg University: “The Evolution of Work in Germany since 1949: Semantic Projections from Job Postings”

Research Grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG): “Human Capital in the 21st Century: A Macroeconomic Perspective with a Special Reference to the Multidimensionality of Skills”

Stipend of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation: “Skill Requirements of a Global Economy in the Information Age: A Macroeconomic Perspective”

Research Grant of the Interdisciplinary Public Policy (IPP) Research Unit at the Johannes Gutenberg University

Seed Grant of the Johannes Gutenberg University

5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences

Best 1st Year PhD Student Award of the Graduate School of Economics, Finance and Management of the Goethe University, the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Darmstadt University of Technology

Additional Skills

Software: Dynare, Eviews, Maple, Matlab, Python, Stata

Languages: English, French, German, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian

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