Fumitaka Furuoka is an associate professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya. He also taught economics at Universiti Malaysia Sabah and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Before entering academia, he worked at the Consulate-General of Japan in Penang, Malaysia, from 1991 to 1999. His main academic interests are labour economics, particularly the topics pertaining to the employment of people with disabilities, unemployment hysteresis, and the Shimer puzzle on the behaviour of equilibrium unemployment. He is an expert in the application of the OxGauss programme in economic analysis. The codes, the data, and his current academic pursuits can be found on his personal page.