Matissa Hollister
PhD, Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University, USA
Master, City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
BA, Urban Studies, Architecture, and Urban Planning, USA
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Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
St-Denis, Xavier and Matissa N. Hollister (forthcoming). “Two Paths Towards Job Instability: Comparing Changes in the Distribution of Job Tenure Duration in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984-2014.” British Journal of Industrial Relations.
St-Denis, Xavier, and Matissa Hollister (2023). “Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015.” Work, Employment and Society. OnlineFirst, Feb 1. doi: 10.1177/09500170221146916.
Hollister, Matissa N. (2015). “Professions at the Helm or Left Behind? Trends in the Occupations of College Graduates Since WWII.” Journal of Education and Work 28(3):301-331.
Hollister, Matissa N. and Kristin E. Smith (2014). "Unmasking the conflicting trends in job tenure by gender in the United States, 1983-2010." American Sociological Review 79(1):159-181.
Hollister, Matissa N. (2012) “Employer and Occupational Instability in Two Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys” The Sociological Quarterly. 53(2): 238-263.
Hollister, Matissa N. (2011). “Employment Stability in the U.S. Labor Market: Rhetoric vs. Reality.” Annual Review of Sociology. 37(1):305-324.
Hollister, Matissa N. (2009) “Is Optimal Matching Sub-Optimal?” Sociological Methods & Research 38(2):235-264.
Hollister, Matissa N. (2004). “Does Firm Size Matter Anymore? The New Economy and the Causes of the Firm Size Wage Effect.” American Sociological Review 69(5):659-676.
Fellowships
2019-2021: Mcgill University Artificial Intelligence Fellow, World Economic Forum, San Francisco Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
2010: Visiting Scholar, The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
2006: Fellow, Summer Institute on Economy and Society: Trajectories of Capitalism, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1999-2005: Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. The National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program.
Grants
2021-2022: “Shocked by uncertainty – the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on life courses.” co-PI. INRS Covid Innovation Grant
2018-2022: “Should I stay or should I go? The consequences of job mobility on future hiring prospects.” PI. SSHRC Insight Grant
2017-2019: “What do we really know about job instability trends? New approaches to measurement issues using data from Canada & the US.” PI. Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Award.
2010-2012: “Corporate Downsizing and Restructuring in the United States, 1971-present” National Science Foundation
2008: “Corporate Downsizing and Restructuring in the United States, 1971-present” Social Science Research Grant, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy Research, Dartmouth College
Co-chair, HR Working Group, Responsible AI Certification Standards, October 2021-current.
“AI in Hiring” Invited guest. Let’s Go, CBC Radio One Montreal, February 2023.
"Reimagining the Future of Work” Panelist. Futures Week, Policy Horizons, Government of Canada, June 2022.
“” Delve podcast, June 2022.
“AI and Labour Market Matching” Panelist. OECD International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills, February 2022.
“.” Wall Street Journal. Coverage of my work, January 2022.
“.” Op-ed, Agenda. December 2021.
Consultations with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Sonderling, August 2021, January 2022, and ongoing.
“Intrapreneurship Using Data Science” Instructor. Â鶹AV Executive Institute Leading a Sustainable Future course, November 2021.
“The AI in HR Paradox” Instructor. Â鶹AV Executive Institute Level Up Webinar, May 2021.
“How best can we address the digital divide to ensure AI is developed without borders?” Panelist. World Summit AI Americas, April 2021.
“The rise and risk of ethical talent AI” Australasian Talent Conference Digital Event, April 2021.
“AI in Hiring” Panelist. Center for Democracy and Technology Working Group Series, March 2021.
“Biases in AI” Panelist. Women in High Performance Computing, Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium, November 2020.
“Advancing Inclusive AI” Panelist. Center for Equity, Gender & Leadership, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, November 2020.
“Human-Machine Collaboration” Panelist. FU.SE Building the Future of Work Together, September 2020.
“Using AI in Human Resources: Creating policies that enable the future of work” Session organizer and facilitator. Cogx 2020, July 2020.
