Sherif earned his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 2006. His research interests include the study of labor markets over the business cycle, with an attempt to explain the cyclical patterns of labor mobility, skill mismatch, the skill premium and the persistence of unemployment, besides the impact of monetary policy on labor markets. Sherif also studies the impact of openness and outsourcing on labor markets, especially on the skill premium and the unemployment of skilled and unskilled workers, in both developed and developing countries... read more »