Professor 

Department of Economics

Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

E-mail: ahn83 at sogang.ac.kr, tahn.83 at gmail.com

Education

Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, June 2008.

M.A., Economics, Sogang University, February 2000.

B.A., Economics, Sogang University, February 1998.

Employment

Faculty, School of Economics, Sogang University, September 2011 – present,

Faculty, Department of Economics, Kyung Hee University, September 2010 – August 2011.

Research Fellow, Korea Labor Institute, August 2008 – August 2010.

Officer, Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute, February 2000 – May 2002.

Research Interests

Labor Economics,  Public Economics, Empirical Microeconomics.

Publications

• Is Subjective Well-being Insured against Income Shocks? Evidence from 20-Year Panel Data in South Korea. (with Jiyeon An and Seonghoon Kim).  Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming.

• Minimum Wage and Self-Employed Business Owners: Evidence from South Korea. Labour Economics, 88, June 2024, 102539.

• Influence of Social Pension on Well-Being and Health of the Rural Elderly: the Case of South Korea. (with Jiyeon An), Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 38 (1), May 2024, 57-74.

• Workweek Reduction and Women's Job Turnover: Evidence from Labor Legislation in South Korea.  Economic Inquiry, 60 (4), October 2022, 1607-1625. 

• The Long Term Influences of Ability Mixing on Soft Skills. (with Young-Geun Goh),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 191, November 2021, 367-386

• The Evolution of Income Risk and Consumption Insurance in South Korea over the Last Two Decades. (with Chung Gu Chee, and Seonghoon Kim), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 83 (2), April 2021, 328-351. 

• Employment and Health among Older People: Self-Employment vs. Wage Employment. Applied Economics Letters, 27 (19),  November 2020, 1574-1580.

• Grandparent Caregiving and Cognitive Functioning Among Older People: Evidence from Korea, (with Kyong Duk Choi), Review of Economics of the Household, 17, June 2019, 553-586.   

• Occupational Composition Within Multinational Firms: Evidence From Korean Employer-Employee Matched Data (with Jung Hur, Haeyeon Yoon), Global Economic Review, 48 (2) 2019, 144-160.

• Assessing the Effects of Reemployment Bonuses on Job Search: A Regression Discontinuity Approach, Journal of Public Economics, 165, September 2018, 82-100. 

• An Analysis of Employment Dynamics in the Republic of Korea: The Role of Temporary Work and Self-Employment, International Labour Review, 155 (4), December 2016, 563-585.

• Reduction of Working Time: Does It Lead to a Healthy Lifestyle?, Health Economics, 25 (8), August 2016, 969-983.

• Locus of Control and Job Turnover, Economic Inquiry, 53 (2), April 2015, 1350-1365. 

• The Employment Dynamics of Less Educated Men in the United States: The Role of Self-Employment, Canadian Journal of Economics, 48 (1), February 2015, 110-133.

• Employment Dynamics of Married Women and the Role of Part-Time Work: The Case of Korea, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 53 (1), June 2012, 25-38. 

• Racial Differences in Self-Employment Exits, Small Business Economics, 36 (2), February 2011, 169-186.

• Divorce as Risky Behavior (with Audrey Light), Demography, 47 (4), November 2010, 895-921.

• Attitudes toward Risk and Self-Employment of Young Workers, Labour Economics, 17 (2) April 2010, 434-442.    

Publications in Korean 

• COVID-19 and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Personality Traits” (with Young-Geun Goh), Korean Journal of Economic Studies, 71(1) March 2023

• COVID-19 and Women’s Employment (with Young-Geun Goh), Korean Journal of Labor Economics, 45(1) March 2022.

• Core Self-Evaluation and Gender Wage Gap among Young Workers (with Young-Geun Goh), Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy, 21(1) March 2021.

• An Analysis of Informal Caregiving and Labor Market Outcomes (with Kyong Duk Choi), Health and Social Welfare Review, 39(1) March 2019.

• Business Cycle and Labor Market Transitions : A Comparison among Demographic Groups. (with Young-Geun Goh), Korean Journal of Labor Economics, 41(2) June 2018.

• The Effects of Early Child Care Choices on Children’s Development. (with Kyong Duk Choi), Quarterly Journal of Labor Policy, 18(2) June 2018.

• Impacts of Grandchildren Caregiving on the Health of Grandparents: An Instrumental Variable Approach (with Kyong Duk Choi), Korean Health Economic Review, 22(3) September 2016.

• Non-Cognitive Traits and Early Labor Market Outcomes. (with Young-Geun Goh), Journal of Employment and Skill Development, 19(2) August 2016

• Intergenerational Income Mobility among Daughters in Korea: The Role of Marital Sorting. (with Kilim Choi), Journal of Women and Economics, 12(2) December 2015.   

• The Effectiveness of the Early Reemployment Bonus: the Role of the Policy Change in 2010, Korean Journal of Labor Economics, 37(4) December 2014.

• Gender wage gap across the wage distribution in Korea, Korea Review of Applied Economics, 14(1) June 2012.  

• Employment Status of Men and the Family Formation, Quaterly Journal of Labor Policy, 10(3) September 2010. 

• Job Loss and Wife’s Labor Supply: Female Labor as an Insurance, Korea Review of Applied Economics, 11(3) December 2009.