A central motivation of my research agenda is to understand how precarious work becomes a source of inequality through its interconnections with family resources, demographic processes, and institutional contexts. I develop this agenda through three critical inquiries:

First, how does precarious employment shape demographic processes? I examine how nonstandard employment, employment insecurity, and unequal job quality influence migration, fertility intentions, and later-life health. This work treats precarious employment not only as a labor market condition, but also as a life-course constraint that shapes people’s capacity to move, form families, maintain health, and plan for the future.

Second, how do precarious work, family resources, and demographic dynamics jointly shape inequality within and across generations? I investigate how parental employment, family structure, divorce, intergenerational support and relationships influence life chances and the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Across these projects, I ask how advantage and disadvantage are reproduced through the interaction of labor market conditions, socioeconomic resources, and family-demographic processes.

Third, how do institutional and cultural contexts shape the links between precarious work, family, and demographic inequality? Much of my research focuses on East Asian societies, where changing labor markets, rapid demographic change, persistent gender inequality, and evolving family norms provide important contexts for studying stratification. My emerging work also uses computational and LLM-assisted approaches to examine changing public narratives of work, family, care, and gender.