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Satoshi TANAKA

Associate Professor of Economics
University of Queensland
s.tanaka.0509 (at) gmail.com


About Me

I am Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Research Interests

Working Papers

  1. College Majors and Skill Mismatch in Labour Markets: A General Equilibrium Approach
    with Michelle Rendall and Yi Zhang
    New version coming soon.
    PDF
  2. What Women See in Men and Vice Versa: Estimates Based on Sex Ratios and Marriage Patterns
    with José-Víctor Ríos-Rull and Shannon Seitz
    Working paper.
    PDF
  3. Occupational Mediation of Intergenerational Income Mobility
    with Arpita Chatterjee, Yuancheng Han, and Aarti Singh
    Working paper.
    PDF

Publications

  1. Service Trade, Regional Specialization, and Welfare
    with Yuancheng Han and Jorge Miranda-Pinto
    Journal of International Economics, Vol. 158, 104178, December 2025.
    PDF Journal Code
  2. Occupational Reallocations within and across Firms: Implications for the Labor Market Polarization
    with Toshi Mukoyama and Naoki Takayama
    Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 150, 103701, March 2025.
    PDF Journal Code
  3. Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn
    with Lawrence Warren and David Wiczer
    Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 135, pp. 86-98, April 2023.
    PDF Journal
  4. The Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 on Labor Markets: People's Movement and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
    with K. Hoshi, H. Kasahara, R. Makioka, and M. Suzuki
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 63, 101170, March 2022.
    Journal
  5. Economic Impacts of SARS/MERS/COVID-19 in Asian Countries
    Satoshi Tanaka
    Asian Economic Policy Review, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 41-61, January 2022.
    Journal
  6. Trade-Off between Job Losses and the Spread of COVID-19 in Japan
    with Kisho Hoshi, Hiro Kasahara, Ryo Makioka, and Michio Suzuki
    Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 72, Issue 4, pp. 683-716, October 2021.
    Journal
  7. Who Spent Their COVID-19 Stimulus Payment? Evidence from Personal Finance Software in Japan
    with Michiru Kaneda and So Kubota
    Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 72, Issue 3, pp. 409-437, January 2021.
    Journal
    Media: Nikkei (in Japanese), Asahi (in Japanese)
  8. Multidimensional Skill Mismatch
    with Fatih Guvenen, Burhan Kuruscu, and David Wiczer
    American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 210-244, January 2020.
    PDF Journal Code
    Media: Bloomberg, Washington Post
  9. Sectoral Shocks and Home Substitution
    with Alessio Moro
    Economics Letters, Vol. 181, pp. 57-60, August 2019.
    PDF Journal
  10. Does Home Production Drive Structural Transformation?
    with Alessio Moro and Solmaz Moslehi
    American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 116-146, July 2017.
    PDF Journal Code
  11. Marriage and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century
    with Alessio Moro and Solmaz Moslehi
    Journal of Demographic Economics, Vol. 83, Issue 4, pp. 379-420, December 2017.
    PDF Journal Code

Work in Progress

  1. Competitions among Cities
    with Yuancheng Han and Bo Zhao
    Work in progress.
  2. Single Mothers, Human Capital Investment in Children, and Economic Policies: a Macroeconomic Analysis
    with Naoki Takayama
    Work in progress.

Research Grants

  1. Macroeconomic Analysis of the Australian Higher Education System
    Chief Investigator
    ARC Discovery Projects Grant, Australian Research Council, 2026. AUD 371,829.
  2. Talent Mismatch: Evidence from Australian Administrative Tax Records
    Chief Investigator
    ARC Discovery Projects Grant, Australian Research Council, 2020. AUD 136,355.
    Link
  3. Banks, Endogenous Network Formations and Financial Crisis
    Chief Investigator
    ARC Discovery Projects Grant, Australian Research Council, 2019. AUD 180,000.
    Link

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