Michael J. Sattinger
Department of Economics
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
Telephone (518) 442‑4761
Email: m.sattinger@albany.edu
Education
1966‑1970. Graduate study, economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie‑Mellon University. M.S. 1969, Ph.D. 1973. Thesis title: Two‑Part Tariffs, Human Capital and Nursing.
1965‑1966. Graduate study, economics, University College, London.
1961‑1965. B.S., mathematics, University of Michigan.
Work Experience
1981‑ Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University at Albany, State University of New York. Professor from 1991; chair 1991-1994, 2000-2002, 2007-2008.
1982‑1983 Associate Professor (lektor), Institute of Economics, University of Århus, Århus, Denmark. (On leave from SUNY‑Albany.)
1977‑1981 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
1970‑1977 Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Faculty Associate, School of Urban and Policy Sciences, 1971‑1977.
1974‑1975 Visiting Assistant Professor (Adjunktvikar), Institute of Economics, University of Århus, Århus, Denmark. (On leave from SUNY‑Stony Brook.)
Teaching Experience
Labor economics, income distribution, microeconomics, macroeconomics
Research Interests
Income distribution, job search, discrimination, industrial organization
Books
Capital and the Distribution of Labor Earnings. North‑Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1980.
Unemployment, Choice and Inequality. Springer‑Verlag, Berlin, 1985.
Income Distribution, Volume I, Description, Measurement, Shape, Dynamics, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, 2001.
Income Distribution, Volume II, Sources of Differences, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, 2001.
Income Distribution, Volume III, Income Shares and Policy, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, 2001.
Articles
Introduction to Special Issue on Technology and Labor Markets, Journal of Income Distribution, September-December 2008, Vol. 17, Number 3-4, pp. 4-11.
A Neoclassical Kaldor Model of Real Wage Declines, Journal of Economic Inequality, August 2005, Volume 3, Number 2, pp. 91-108.
Overlapping Labour Markets, Labour Economics, April 2006, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 237-257.
Combining Assignment with Search, Medium for Econometric Applications, Vol. 11, Edition 3, January 2004.
Capital Intensity, Neutral Technological Change, and Earnings Inequality, Journal of Income Distribution, Spring-Summer 2003, Volume 12, Number 1-2, pp. 1-20.
Combining Assignment with Search, Medium for Econometric Applications, Vol. 11, Edition 3, January 2004.
A Queuing Model of the Market for Access to Trading Partners, International Economic Review, May 2002, Vol. 43(2), pp. 533-547.
Statistical Discrimination with Employment Criteria, International Economic Review, February 1998, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 205-237.
Choice, Order Statistics and the Distribution of Earnings, Journal of Income Distribution, 1996, Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 9-32.
Search and Discrimination, Labour Economics, September 1996, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 143-167.
General Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Compensation with Labor Force Participation, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 13, No. 4, October 1995, pp. 623-652.
Search and the Efficient Assignment of Workers to Jobs, International Economic Review, May 1995, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 283-302.
Assignment Models of the Distribution of Earnings, Journal of Economic Literature, June 1993, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 831‑880. Reprinted in Sattinger, Income Distribution, Volume II, 2000.
Matching Up Mismatches: Economic and Other Mechanisms, Regional Science Review, 1991, Vol. 18, pp. 81‑93.
Consistent Wage Offer and Reservation Wage Distributions, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 1991, Vol. 106(1), pp. 277‑288.
Unemployment, the Market for Interviews, and Wage Determination, Journal of Political Economy, April 1990, Vol. 98(2), pp. 356‑371.
Factor Pricing in the Assignment Problem, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1984, Vol. 86(1), pp. 17‑34.
Value of an Additional Firm in Monopolistic Competition, Review of Economic Studies, April 1984, Vol. LI, pp. 321‑332.
The Effect of Labor Quality on Labor's Factor Share, Atlantic Economic Journal, July 1980, Vol. VIII(2), pp. 33‑43.
Differential Rents and the Distribution of Earnings, Oxford Economic Papers, March 1979, Vol. 31(1), pp. 60‑71.
Trade Flows and Differences Between Countries, Atlantic Economic Journal, July 1978, Vol. VI(2), pp. 22‑30.
Comparative Advantage in Individuals, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1978, Vol.LX(2), pp. 259‑267.
Compensating Wage Differences, Journal of Economic Theory, December 1977, Vol. 16(2), pp. 496‑503.
Two‑Part Wage Structures, Atlantic Economic Journal, July 1977, Vol. V(2), pp. 61‑67.
Local Stability When Initial Holdings Are Near Equilibrium Holdings, Journal of Economic Theory, October 1975, Vol. 11(2), pp. 161‑167.
Alternative Models of the Market for Registered Nurses, Journal of Economics and Business, October 1975, Vol. 28, pp. 50‑54.
Comparative Advantage and the Distributions of Earnings and Abilities, Econometrica, May 1975, Vol. 43, pp. 455‑468. Reprinted in Sattinger, Income Distribution, Volume II (2001).
A Model for Piecemeal Welfare Policy, Review of Economic Studies, April 1970, Vol. XXXVII(2), pp. 298‑301.
Introduction, in Sattinger (ed), Income Distribution, Volume I, 2001, pp. xi-lxxxi.
Block Assignments, in Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics, edited by Henning Bunzel, Bent J. Christensen, George R. Neumann, and Jean-Marc Robin, for the series “Contributions to Economic Analysis,” Elsevier, 2006, pp. 169-181.
The Employment-Productivity Relationship with Employment Criteria (joint with Sumati Srinivas), in Aspects of Worker Well-Being, Research in Labor Economics, Volume 26, edited by Solomon Polachek and Olivier Bargain, Elsevier, 2007, pp. 447-466.
Book Reviews
Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently?, by Dale Mortensen, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2005, Vol. 58(4), pp. 661-663.
Tuition Rising; Why College Costs So Much, by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Academe, 2000.
Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity Under Capitalist Competition, by Howard Botwinick, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1994, Vol. 48(1), pp. 68-69.
Capabilities, Allocation and Earnings, by Joop Hartog, Journal of Economic Literature, June 1993, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 911‑913.
Reports
“Labor Market Conditions Facing Youth in Independent Living Programs,” written with Nipa Basu and Gerd Schwartz for the New York State Department of Social Services as part of the Youth Employment/Independent Living Project.
“Foster Care Youth in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth,” prepared for the New York State Department of Social Services as part of the Youth Employment/Independent Living Project.
Funded Research
Co‑Director with Prof. Ray Bromley, Youth Employment--Independent Living Project, carried out by the Lewis Mumford Center for the New York State Department of Social Services. $100,000.
Selected Presentations
Assignment, Hierarchies and Upper Tails, American Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, 2007.
Queueing and Searching, Labor Market Dynamic Growth 2007 Conference, Sandbjerg, Denmark, 2007
Labor Queues, Search and Matching Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Safety First Consumption, New York University, 2007
Assignment, Hierarchies and the Upper Tail, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2006
Labor Queues, Far Eastern Meetings of the Econometric Society, Beijing, China, 2006
Costs of Unemployment, Society of Labor Economists, Boston, 2006
Safety First Consumption, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006
Labor Queues, Society of Labor Economists, World Conference 2005, San Francisco.
Block Assignments, Conference on Labour Market Models and Matched Employer-Employee Data, University of Aarhus, Sandbjerg, Denmark, August 2004.
Price Dispersion in a Queueing Market, Economic Aspects of Congested Networks and Queues, University of Bonn, June 2004.
A Neoclassical Kaldor Model of Real Wage Declines, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), June 2004.
A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines, presented at the colloquium “On the Wealth of Nations—Extending the Tinbergen Heritage,” Erasmus University, Rotterdam, April 2003.
Temporary Equilibrium and Price Dispersion in a Queuing Model, Society of Economic Dynamics, New York City, June 2002
The Decision of Where to Search, Econometric Society Winter Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2002.
A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines, Queens University, October 2001.
Overlapping Markets, Academy Colloquium sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Tinbergen Institute, Assignment and Matching Models in Economics, Amsterdam, 2000.
The Market for Access to Trading Partners, Brokers, and Price Determination, Eighth World Congress, Econometric Society, Seattle, August 2000.
A Queuing Model of Price Determination in a Competitive Market, Econometric Society Winter Meetings, New York, January 1999.
The Market for Access to Trading Partners, Brokers, and Price Determination, Midwest Theory Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1998.
What Determines Price? Institute of Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark, October 1997.
Statistical Discrimination with Employment Criteria, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, October 1997.
Discriminatory Monopsony Outcomes Without Monopsony Market Power, Econometric Society Winter Meetings, January 1997, New Orleans.
Statistical Discrimination with Employment Criteria, Econometric Society World Congress, August 1995, Tokyo, Japan.
Professional Societies
American Economic Association
Econometric Society
Society of Labor Economists