My research primarily focused on applied microeconomics, particularly labor and urban economics. I have a broad interest in topics concerning individuals’ behavior in a city system. My current research focuses on the job match of college-educated workers, specifically how labor market size affects job match quality. Using advanced empirical econometrics and American Community Surveys, I examine individuals’ and families’ economic and social decisions and results.
The Benefits of Major-related Labor Markets for Job Match Quality of College Graduates (under review)
This research presents an innovative approach to measuring labor market size, tailored specifically to individual college majors, to explore its effect on job match quality. The results indicate that the scale of the major-specific labor market is a robust predictor of improved job match quality. However, the effect of the overall labor market size on job match quality shows variable outcomes. Additionally, the study uncovers that the impact of major-specific labor market size is considerably more pronounced among male and younger workers.
Match Quality, City Size, and The Extent of The Market For Power Couples
In light of Costa and Kahn's (2000) finding that power couples tend to reside in large metropolitan areas, it is hypothesized that a co-location challenge unique to dual-career, highly educated spouses must be resolved. Simon (2019) provides evidence that larger, more educated towns offer higher husband-and-wife career outcomes, as assessed by occupational attainment, for college-educated wives and husbands. Using data from the 2010-2019 American Community Surveys, I evaluate the job match quality among power couples using a new measure of market size, the major-specific labor market size I create in my job market paper. Using a linear probability model with area and degree fields as fixed effects, preliminary findings indicate that increasing major-specific labor market size that is related to the wife has a larger and more positive effect on the job match quality of power couples while increasing major-specific labor market size that is related to the husband has no discernible effect.
The Difference in Job Match Quality, a Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Approach
The Effect of China's Employment Quota System For Disabled People on Their Employment
A Simple Analysis of Why Most of the States Use "Winner-Take-All" System in Presidential Election
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.”
——Albert Einstein