Satoshi Tanaka

Associate Professor Satoshi Tanaka serves in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, where he conducts research in macroeconomics and labor economics, with interests extending to demographic economics. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics and Master's degree (coursework) from the University of Minnesota. Throughout his career at the University of Queensland, Tanaka has received funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, including as chief investigator for "Talent Mismatch: Evidence from Australian Administrative Tax Records" (2020-2025, AUD136,355) and "Banks, Endogenous Network Formations and Financial Crisis" (2019-2022, AUD180,000). He also secured the UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund for "Testing theories of labor market dynamics over business cycles with large employer-employee-matched data" (2012-2013). Currently, he contributes to the ARC Discovery Project "Macroeconomic Analysis of the Australian Higher Education System" (2026-2029, administered by Monash University).

Tanaka's publications appear in prestigious journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics and American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. Key works include "Occupational Reallocation within and Across Firms: Implications for Labor Market Polarization" (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2025, with Toshihiko Mukoyama and Naoki Takayama), "Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn" (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023, with Lawrence Warren and David Wiczer), "Multidimensional Skill Mismatch" (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2020, with Fatih Guvenen, Burhan Kuruscu, and David Wiczer), and "Does Home Production Drive Structural Transformation?" (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, with Alessio Moro and Solmaz Moslehi). His research addresses labor market polarization, skill mismatch, job flows, structural transformation, home production, sectoral shocks, and economic impacts of COVID-19 in Asian countries, including stimulus payments and trade-offs between job losses and pandemic spread in Japan. Tanaka supervises doctoral students, having served as principal advisor for PhD theses on spatial macroeconomics and trade (completed 2025) and monetary policy under labor market power (ongoing), and as associate advisor for theses on natural disasters and labor markets (2024) and labor economics (2024).

Professional Email: s.tanaka@uq.edu.au