Other Projects

With Dr. Juri Kim (Korean Women's Development Institute), we are working on the long-term labour market segmentation patterns in South Korea. Using Group-based Multi-trajectory Analysis on Korean Labor & Income Panel data, we are trying to identify the different work trajectory patterns over the last 10 years, based on the changes in workers' contract type, income level and subjective job insecurity.

With Dr. Koeun Park (Korean Health Insurance Research Institute), we are trying to understand why even the seemingly secure workers may feel precarious about their job prospects in the long-term. Building on the literature on the subjective job insecurity, we start from the premise that the workers' insecurity cannot be fully captured through the 'objective' measure (namely, permanent/fixed-term contracts). We take the discussion further by adding the long-term prospect to measure workers' subjective job insecurity, and examine the determinants of such insecurities using both individual and national level variables. We are currently focusing on Europe, using the European Working Conditions Survey.

With prof. Valeria Pulignano (Principal Investigator) and prof. Bart Meuleman from KU Leuven, we have worked on an advanced ERC project ResPecTMe to identify and measure the unpaid work workers to as part of their paid jobs, and understand labour precariousness in terms of paid/unpaid continuum. We have developed a survey to measure and capture the concept of 'unpaid work' that has been theorised by the qualitative research conducted as part of the project. We are also working closely with ILO, Eurofound, WageIndicator Foundation to develop a more comprehensive and useful measurement. (For more information↗)

With prof. Eleni De Becker (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, KU Leuven), prof. Valeria Pulignano and prof. Dr. Paul Schoukens (KU Leuven), we have investigated the social protection coverage of platform workers with Socio-legal perspective, as a collaboration between the ResPecTMe project and Working Yet Poor project. Given the varieties of working patterns among the platform workers, we have examined how platform workers with different working patterns would fare under the different social protection systems across Europe. We have examined how platform workers would be covered by the unemployment protection systems in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy if they all have the legal status as employees (Publication in European Journal of Social Security↗)

My PhD research project was on gendered dualization of the labour market across Europe, and the impact of family policy on the cross-national variations of the gendered patterns. My supervisors are Prof Dr Heejung Chung and Dr Trude Sundberg.

First, I conducted Latent Class Analysis to examine how the European labour market is divided, and found four labour market segments: 1) Insiders, 2) Typical Outsiders, 3) Dead-end Insiders and 4) Subjective Outsiders (for detail see my paper on Transfer↗)

Second, Using the four segment variable, I examined how the divided labour market is also gendered. I took two approaches: 1) Multigroup Latent Class Analysis to compare the segmentation patterns between women and men 2) Logistic Regression Analysis to examine women's relative likelihood of being in each Outsider segment (segments 2~4) compared to men

Third, I examined if such gendered patterns vary across countries and whether national level institutions matter, focusing specifically on family policies (e.g., leave policies, childcare services), using Multilevel Modelling (for detail see my paper on Journal of European Social Policy↗)

With dr. Caroline Dewilde, dr. Erwin Gielens and dr. Femke Roosma (Tilburg University), we are examining the housing inequality across Europe as part of a large international interdisciplinary research project EqualHouse (Horizon Europe).