Position Title
Job Market Candidate
Position Title
Job Market Candidate
- Brown University
Bio
Alex Yarkin is a Job Market Candidate at Brown University, where he completed his Ph.D. in Economics in 2023, and a postdoc at UC Davis. His main research fields are Labor Economics and Political Economy. His other research connects Political Economy to Macro and Growth. In particular, his recent paper focus on (i) immigration, IC Ts, and social networks, (ii) xenophobia and populism, (iii) the political economy of structural change, and (iv) religion, gender and labor markets.
He is currently on his first Job Market during the 2024-2025 academics year. His Job Market Paper documents the effects of new communication technologies on immigrants’ socio-economic integration, spatial and job segregation, and networking in the US. Some of his other papers are currently (i) Reject and Resubmit at Econometrica, (ii) Forthcoming at the American Economic Association: P&P, and (iii) Under review in top-5 / top-10 journals.