Seonho Shin

At a glance

• Assistant Professor of Applied Microeconomics and Microeconometrics, Department of Economics, Ajou University (Tenure-track) [Faculty]

• SSK Economics Research Group, Seoul National University

• Research Affiliate, IZA

• [Fields] Applied Microeconomics and Microeconometrics, Labor Economics, Cultural Economics, Computational Methods (Big Data & Machine Learning)

• [Topics] Cross-border human capital mobility (Refugees, Asylum seekers, Defectors, Migrants), Culture & Arts, Female labor force, Selection-correction methods, Non-independent clustered observations with non-continuous outcome variables

• [Education]

  • Seoul National University (BA, cum laude, With a social science scholarship from KFAS)

  • University of Frankfurt [Johann Wolfgang Goethe] (MSc & Doctorate, summa cum laude, Completed in 2020, With a national scholarship from the Federal Government of Germany)

• [References] Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Alexander Bick

Pre-doctoral employment

• Airbus

• Monitor-Deloitte Strategy | Consultant (Corporate strategy)

• Roland Berger | Senior Consultant, Project Manager (Corporate strategy)

• Leibniz Institute for Financial Research

Publications [SSCI]

1. Seonho Shin (2021), “Were they a shock or an opportunity?: The heterogeneous impacts of the 9/11 attacks on refugees as job seekers—a nonlinear multi-level approach”, Empirical Economics 61(5) [IF: 2.6, SSCI Q2], pp. 2827–2864 [Link] (Single-authored)

   • • CNRS Best Paper Award, Fwwg-Norbert Walter Best Paper Award

2. Seonho Shin (2022), “Evaluating the effect of the Matching Grant Program for refugees: An observational study using matching, weighting, and the Mantel-Haenszel test”, Journal of Labor Research 43(1), pp. 103–133 [Link] (Single-authored)

3. Seonho Shin (2022), “To work or not? Wages or subsidies?: Copula-based evidence of subsidized refugees’ negative selection into employment”, Empirical Economics 63(4) [IF: 2.6, SSCI Q2], pp. 2209–2252 [Link] (Single-authored)

4. Seonho Shin (2022), “Labor market impact of COVID-19 on migrants in South Korea: Evidence from local outbreaks”, Asian Economic Journal 36(3), pp. 229–260 [Link] (Single-authored)

   • • This paper ranks within the top decile of downloads among articles published in the Asian Economic Journal during 2022, assessed over the first year following publication.

5. Seonho Shin (2024), “The impact of COVID-19 on cultural and arts activities: Evidence from a large-scale micro-level survey in South Korea”, Journal of Cultural Economics 49, pp. 193–229 [IF: 2.9, SSCI Q1] [Link] (Single-authored)

6. Seonho Shin (2025), “Exploring wage workers’ leisure travel: The role of structural constraints on the extensive and intensive margins of travel”, Tourism Economics [IF: 4.6, SSCI Q1] [Link] (Single-authored)

7. Seonho Shin (2025), “The impact of a sudden asylum seeker influx on host attitudes: Quasi-experimental evidence from South Korea”, World Development 192, 106981 [IF: 6.7, SSCI Q1] [Link] (Single-authored)

Working papers [Selective]

• “Evidence on how host adolescents respond to a sudden influx of asylum seekers” [Minor revision requested (Minor R&R)]

• “Skill paradox explained: The price of unobservables in refugees’ labor market”

• “Selection-correction and ‘true’ gender wage gaps in South Korea: A semi-parametric approach using independence at infinity”

• “COVID-19’s unequal impacts on gender employment gaps in South Korea: Has she earned a bachelor’s degree?”

Recent policy works [Selective]

• [한국은행, Bank of Korea] 경기도 체류 외국인 인구의 구성 변화에 관한 동적 분석 (Foreign population in Gyeonggi Province: Dynamic compositional changes in immigrants’ human capital factors and labor market outcomes) [Link]

• [한국은행, Bank of Korea] 대구-경북 외국인 노동시장의 장기 동적 변화에 관한 실증 분석 (An empirical analysis of long-term changes in the foreign worker labor market in Daegu and Gyeongbuk) [Link]

Policy advising & Committee activities [Selective]

• [Public sector] Arts Council Korea, Bank of Korea, Gyeonggi Province, Korea Arts Management Service, Korea Culture & Tourism Institute, Korea Development Institute, Korea Employment Information Service, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Korea Institute of Public Administration, Korea Labor Institute, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Ministry of Justice, Overseas Koreans Agency, Sejong Special Self-Governing City, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Statistics Korea, Suwon Special City, Unification Policy Research Council, etc.

• [공공부문 자문] 경기도, 고용노동부, 대외경제정책연구원, 법무부, 문화체육관광부, 산업연구원, 서울특별시, 세종특별자치시, 수원특례시, 예술경영지원센터, 재외동포청, 통계청, 통일정책연구협의회, 한국개발연구원, 한국고용정보원, 한국관광공사, 한국노동연구원, 한국문화관광연구원, 한국문화예술위원회, 한국은행, 한국행정연구원 등