International Journal (* indicates collaboration with current or former students.)
Choe, C., Moon, Y., & Yu, S. (2024). COVID-19 and depressive symptoms among older adults in South Korea. Journal of Women & Aging, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2024.2345467
Heesun Lee*, Chung Choe & Dongwoo Kang (forthcoming) The impact of e-commerce on local retail employment: examining heterogeneous impacts by employment and regional types, Global Economic Review — This paper was supported by Konkuk University in 2023. [April 2026]
Koangsung Choi*, Francesco Renna & Chung Choe (forthcoming) The Impact of the Field of Study on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence From the First Job Offer out of College, Applied Economics. — This paper was supported by Konkuk University in 2022. [April 2025]
Koangsung Choi*, Francesco Renna & Chung Choe (2023) The impact of Covid-19 on the Korean and US labour markets, Applied Economics, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2212966— This paper resulted from the Konkuk University research support program.**
Chung Choe, Daeho Lee & Koangsung Choi* (2024) Job training and firm efficiency: evidence from a meta-frontier analysis, Applied Economics, 56:22, 2646-2653, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2198192 — This paper was supported by Konkuk University in 2021.**
Choe, C., Y. B. Kim, and K. Choi*. (forthcoming) Do Internships Matter?: The Impact of Internship Participation on Employability. Singapore Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590823500133
Renna, Francesco, Oaxaca, Ronald L. and Choe, Chung. Is There a Business Cycle Effect on the Incidence of Dual Job Holding? The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 23, no. 2, 2023, pp. 443-465. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2022-0110
Choi, K.*, Choe, C. & Kim, Y.B. (2023) Impact of Korea's Non-regular Worker Protection Act on Job Satisfaction. LABOUR, 37( 2), 222– 241. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12242
Hwang, S., C. Choe and K. Choi*. (2021) Population Ageing and Income Inequality. Journal of the Economics of Ageing. Vol 20: 100345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100345
Lee, D., K. Choi* and C. Choe. (2021) "The Effect of Employing Temporary Workers on Efficiency: Evidence from A Meta-Frontier Analysis". SAGE Open. Vol 11(4): 1-7.
Chung Choe, Sung Hoon Kang & Koangsung Choi* (2021) Effects of wage-peak system on youth employment: Evidence from South Korea, Applied Economics, 53:43, 4975-4984, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1912697 -- This work was supported by the Konkuk University in 2020.**
Yu S, Choe C (2021) Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers. PLOS ONE 16(6): e0252270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252270
Koangsung Choi*, Chung Choe & Dongwoo Kang (2021) Impact of introducing one-stop employment service centres on local employment in South Korea, Applied Economics Letters, 28:4, 281-286, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1752358
Kyunam Kim, Chung Choe, Daeho Lee, Overlapping certification and technical efficiency of ICT convergence companies in South Korea, Science and Public Policy, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2020, Pages 514–524, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa031
Choe, C., Jung, S. & Oaxaca, R.L. Identification and decompositions in probit and logit models. Empirical Economics. 59, 1479–1492 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01716-2 [This work is supported by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2016-00000002971).]
Choe, C., Baldwin, M. L., & Song, H. (2020). A Hierarchy of Stigma Associated with Mental Disorders. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 23(2), 43–54.
Choe C, Van Kerm P. Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal? Econometrics. 2018; 6(3):41. https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics6030041
Choe, C., Oaxaca, R. L., & Renna, F. (2018). Constrained vs unconstrained labor supply: the economics of dual job holding. Journal of Population Economics, 31(4), 1279–1319. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48699830 [This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2015S1A5A8014290).]
Jung, S., R. Oaxaca and C. Choe. (June 2018) Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis. Labour Economics. 54: 112-121.
Daeho Lee, Kyunam Kim & Chung Choe (2017) An analysis of the impact of unionization on efficiency: evidence from a meta-frontier analysis, Applied Economics Letters, 24:8, 575-578, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1213355
Chung Choe & Marjorie L. Baldwin (2017) Duration of disability, job mismatch and employment outcomes, Applied Economics, 49:10, 1001-1015, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1210767 [This work is supported by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2014-00000002195).]
Ronald L. Oaxaca and Chung Choe. (2016). Wage Decompositions using Panel Data Sample Selection Correction. The Korean Economic Review, 32(2), 201-218. [This work was supported by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2015-G).]
Van Kerm, P., Yu, S., & Choe, C. (2016). Decomposing quantile wage gaps: a conditional likelihood approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), 65(4), 507–527. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24773037
Choe, C., Flores-Lagunes, A. & Lee, SJ. Do dropouts with longer training exposure benefit from training programs? Korean evidence employing methods for continuous treatments. Empirical Economics, 48, 849–881 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-014-0805-y
Choe, C. and Chrite, E.L. (2014), Internal Migration of Blacks in South Africa: An Application of the Roy Model. South African Journal of Economics, 82: 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12011
Marjorie L. Baldwin & Chung Choe (2014) Re-examining the models used to estimate disability-related wage discrimination, Applied Economics, 46:12, 1393-1408, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.872762
Baldwin, M.L. and Choe, C. (2014), Wage Discrimination Against Workers with Sensory Disabilities. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 53: 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12048
Choe, C. (2013), Determinants of Labor Market Outcomes of Disabled Men Before and After The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Korean Economic Review. 28: 211-233. http://keapaper.kea.ne.kr/RePEc/kea/keappr/KER-20130630-29-1-10.pdf
Domestic Journal (*는 지도학생을 의미함.)
문여경*, 최충, 김진실 (2023) “NCS 패널 설계 및 구축 방안 연구”. 『통계연구』 제28권 제2호 31-44.
최충, 이상협 (2021) “울산지역의 조선업 구조조정이 음식숙박․서비스업 영세업체의 고용과 매출에 미친 영향”. 『노동정책연구』 제21권 제2호 165-196. -- 본 논문은 한국은행 울산본부의 재정지원을 받아 작성되었음.
이희선*, 권다영*, 최충 (2020) “노동조합이 교육훈련에 미치는 영향”. 『노동경제논집』 제43권 제4호 179-203.
이희선*, 강동우, 최충 (2020) “조선업 위기가 지역상권 고용에 미친 영향: 거제시와 통영시 사례를 중심으로”. 『경제학연구』 제68집 제2호 119-154.
양용현*, 최광성*, 최충 (2019) “재직자 직업훈련이 취업 및 이직에 미치는 영향”. 『노동경제논집』 제42권 제3호 75-98.
최충, 최광성*, 이지은 (2019) "노동시장 이중구조와 노동생산성: OECD 국가를 중심으로”. 『경제분석』 제25권 제3호 1-29. -- 본 논문은 한국은행의 재정지원을 받아 작성되었음.
노우진*, 최충 (2019) "사업체의 임금피크제 도입 결정요인”. 『응용경제』 제21권 제2호 93-122.
최광성*, 최충, 오종현 (2019) "청년고용증대 세액공제 제도가 기업의 고용증증가에 미치는 효과”. 『재정정책논집』 제21권 제2호 3-34. -- 본 논문은 2017년 한양대학교 교내연구비 지원으로 연구되었음 (HY-2017)
한승주*, 최충 (2019) “아동수당과 합계출산율: OECD 국가를 중심으로”. 『한국경제포럼』 제12권 제1호 27-55.
최충, 김남주, 최광성* (2018) “직업훈련이 청년취업률 제고에 미치는 영향”. 『경제분석』 제24권 제2호 1-27. (lead article) -- 본 논문은 한국은행의 재정지원을 받아 작성되었음.
최광성*, 강동우, 최충 (2018) “지역이동이 대졸자의 임금 변화에 미치는 영향”. 『노동경제논집』 제41권 제2호 61-88. -- 본 논문은 2017년 한양대학교 교내연구비 지원으로 연구되었음 (HY-2017).
최충, 정성엽 (2017) “비정규직 전환이 임금소득 분포에 미치는 영향”. 『경제분석』 제23권 제1호 1-22. -- 본 논문은 한국은행의 재정지원을 받아 작성되었음.
Papers Under Review
Repayment Burdens of Student Loans for Korean Higher Education (June 2023), with Jin Yeong Kim and Yeogyoung Moon
Income Taxation and Dual Job labour Supply (April 2023), with Francesco Renna and Ronald Oaxaca
Analysis of the effectiveness of vocational training for the unemployed with a focus on the determinants of training-related employment rates (March 2023), with Inyoung Hwang
What's the Risk from Competing? Competition Aversion and the Gender Wage Gap (October 2022), with Seeun Jung and Ronald Oaxaca
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Better Treatment Assignment Rules: The Case of Korean Job Training Programs, with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Seokchae Hwang
On-going Funded Research Projects
"Impact of Job Training Program on Job Quality among Young College Graduates: an Application of EM Algorithm (2021)". — This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021S1A5A2A01066357). [June 2024, extendable by June 2025]
"Repayment Burdens of Student Loans for Korean Higher Education (2023)". — This paper was written by the support program for Research Oriented Professors of Konkuk University. [February 2025, extendable by February 2026]
"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Government-Sponsored Training Initiatives in Korea: A Central vs. Regional Approach (2024)". -- This paper was supported by Konkuk University in 2024. [April 2027]
"Corporate Responses to Parental Leave: Differences Based on Employee Disability Status (2025)". -- 이 논문은 2025학년도 건국대학교의 연구년교원 지원에 의하여 연구되었음. [February 2027]