Research

• Earnings Satisfaction in South Korea  (2026), Asian-Pacific Economic Literature (SSCI), with Yu Woosik

• The Impact of Korean Manufacturing Exports on Service-Sector Employment: Evidence from an Input-Output and Structural Decomposition Analysis (Korean)  (2026),  Asia Pacific Journal of Business (KCI), with Kim Tae-Jin

• Are Observed Gender Wage Gaps Too Small? The Impact of Sample Selection Bias in South Korea   (2026), Japan and the World Economy (SSCI), with Jeremiah Richey

• Labor market inequality in overall monetary and non-monetary rewards in South Korea  (2025), East Asian Economic Review (KCI), with Kim Tae-Jin

• Understanding the carbon intensity of South Korea's exports: A multiplicative structural decomposition analysis  (2024), Climate Change Economics (SSCI), with Kim Tae-Jin

• The environmental and economic impact of trade between South Korea and the United States  (2024), East Asian Economic Review (KCI), with Kim Tae-Jin

• The Economic Impact of the Logistics Industry in South Korea: Based on an Input-Output Approach  (2022), LOGI - Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics (SCOPUS), with Kim Tae-Jin

• Graduating to a gender wage gap in South Korea  (2022), Journal of Asian Economics (SSCI), with Kwak Juwon

• The Black-White wage gaps among young men and women in 1990 versus 2011: With sample selection adjustments  (2021), Bulletin of Economic Research (SSCI), with Jeremiah Richey

• Analysis of carbon emissions embodied in South Korea’s international trade: Production-based and consumption-based perspectives  (2021), Journal of Cleaner Production (SSCI), with Kim Tae-Jin

• Carbon emissions embodied in China-Brazil trade: Trends and driving factors  (2021), Journal of Cleaner Production (SSCI), with Kim Tae-Jin

• The narrowing gender wage gap in South Korea  (2019), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (SSCI)

Working Papers

• Work hours, gender role attitudes and the wellbeing of married couples in South Korea, Submitted (SCOPUS), with Kim Tae-Jin

• Effects of the EU's Environmental Taxes on Public and Private Transport, RnR (SSCI), with Yize Li, Yi Wang, and Yu Woosik

• A comparative analysis of gender earnings gaps in self-employment vs. paid employment in South Korea, Submitted (SSCI), with Yu Woosik

• Japan as a Regional Knowledge and Capability Hub: Productivity Effects of Korean Firms' Outward FDI, Submitted (SSCI), With Yu Woosik and Jungeun Elly Kim

• Investment Destination Matters: An Analysis of Offshoring and Domestic Employment, Submitted (SSCI), With Yu Woosik

Contact me

E-mail: nikolas.tromp [at] gmail.com or nikolas [at] kmu.ac.kr