Research

My research mainly focuses on empirically examining gendered precarious experiences in the labour market and the role of institutional contexts in shaping labour market patterns across Europe and East Asia.

First, I investigate the varieties of work precarity and what it means to be precarious in the contemporary labour market where feeling precarious is becoming a norm. My research moves beyond the existing definition of precarity (especially the dichotomy of standard and non-standard employment) and captures complex labour market experience as a result of configuratin of various job characteristics. 

Second, I examine how the experience of precarity varies along gender lines. I start from the question how precarity is experienced, manifested and considered differently by gender. 

Third, I investigate the association between the labour market patterns and its national institutional contexts, with specific focus on social policies, through international comparative research. I look at various aspects of social policy including labour market, welfare, family and housing policies.