Dr. Jason Faberman

Biography

Jason Faberman is a senior economist and economic advisor with a focus on research, policy, and public engagement at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research broadly encompasses the labor market, particularly the interaction between employers and workers. He has studied these interactions at the micro level and in the broader macroeconomy within urban areas. His works have been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is a Heis Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and currently serves as a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC). Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2011, he was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2007 to 2011 and a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 to 2007. During his tenure at the BLS, he worked extensively on developing and enhancing the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) and the Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data. He was also part of the team that developed and maintains the Job Search Supplement for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE), an extensive survey on individuals’ job search and job finding outcomes. Additionally, he has taught as an adjunct at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of Maryland, College Park.

Research Interests

Experience