Ian M. Schmutte

            Ph.D. Candidate

            Department of Economics

            Cornell University

 Research Interests

• Labor Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Econometrics, Complex Social Networks

Working Papers

• The Network Structure of Job-to-Job Mobility (March 2007)
• Free to Move? Testing Dual Labor Market Theory Using the Realized Mobility Network (March 2007)
• The Identification Problem and Social Learning Under Ambiguity (August 2006)

Other

• I am currently the coordinator, along with David De Angelis, of The Work In Progress Seminar (TWIPS).
• A subgraph of the realized mobility network in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1994-2001) drawn using Pajek v1.16. Each node represents a worker in the sample. An edge connects two workers when they share a pseudo-employer (industry-occupation pair). Click for a larger image.