Karine Torosyan
Graduate student
Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
College of Social Sciences
Michigan State University
My prior academic background is in empirical Economics with a focus on labor markets in transition countries. Currently I am pursuing a graduate degree in Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at MSU. My studies help me building new knowledge and skills which are very useful in understanding geographical variation in labor market outcomes and how various spatial factors might be shaping the labor market and its dynamics. In terms of area focus, I have started exploring occupational mobility in the U.S. (at the national and at the state levels) and how it might be impacted by ongoing changes in human capital requirements. I am also investigating the link between the change in occupational requirements for workers’ knowledge, skills, and abilities and some key unemployment outcomes, such as incidence and duration of unemployment. Some of the key changes in occupational requirements are linked to developments in technology and its applications. As part of the WEAVE team, I am very excited to investigate this link and its implications for labor markets outcomes at various geographic scales.
Research Areas: Labor mobility, Occupational change, Gender and labor market outcomes, Displacement and labor market outcomes
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