Mikal Skuterud is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo, Director of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), Fellow-in-Residence
and Roger Phillips Scholar of Social Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He received his Master’s degree in Economics from
the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University.

His research interests include: the labour market integration of immigrants, labour market policies that influence hours of work, and the economics of trade unions. His work has
appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Canadian Journal of Economics, and has received national media coverage in the New York
Times and the Globe and Mail.