He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of both the Journal of European Economics Association and the Review of Economic Dynamics. Jaimovich's research focuses on business cycles and the macroeconomic implications of microproduct level data. He was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, from 2004 to 2006 and at Stanford University from 2006 to 2010. Jaimovich received his PhD in economics from Northwestern University and his bachelor's in economics and business administration from Hebrew University in 1998.