Ian M. Schmutte

I am Associate Professor in the Department of Economics in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. I also hold an appointment as a research economist with the Center for Enterprise Dissemination - Disclosure Avoidance at the U.S. Census Bureau, and am a fellow of the Global Labor Organization and the Labor Dynamics Institute. My research focuses on how regulations and social institutions affect earnings and job mobility. I have studied job referral networks, compensating differentials, racial discrimination, the gender wage gap, and the effects of minimum wages on turnover. I also study data privacy, focusing on the trade-off between privacy and accuracy in the publication of official statistics.

Recent News

• Registration is now open for “Models of Linked Employer-Employee Data,” a conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of “High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms”.

• New working paper! “Building a Productive Workforce: The Role of Structured Management Practices”.

• I’m proud to have received an Excellence in Reviewing certificate for the journal Labour Economics in 2018. This award is given to the top 10 reviewers in 2018.

• Syllabi for my Fall 2019 courses are now available on the teaching page.

• “Modeling Endogenous Mobility in Earnings Determination” is now available in print. An ungated eprint is available here.