Seonho Shin

(Tenure-track) Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Ajou University

SSK Economics Research Group, Seoul National University

At a glance

Currently, Assistant Professor of Applied Microeconomics and Microeconometrics at the Department of Economics, Ajou University (Tenure-track)
Currently, SSK Economics Research Group at Seoul National University
[Fields] Applied Microeconomics and Microeconometrics, Labor Economics, Cultural Economics, Computational Methods (Big Data & Machine Learning)
[Topics] Cross-border human capital movement (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, With a social science scholarship from KFAS)
- University of Frankfurt (MSc & Doctorate, Completed in 2020, With a national scholarship from the Federal Government of Germany)
[References] Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Alexander Bick

Pre-doctoral employment

Publications [SSCI]

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: 3.2], pp. 2827–2864 [Link] [Online Supplement] (Single-authored)
- - CNRS Best Paper Award, Fwwg-Norbert Walter Best Paper Award
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] [Online Supplement] (Single-authored)
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: 3.2], pp. 2209–2252 [Link] [Online Supplement] (Single-authored)
Seonho Shin (2022), “Labor market impact of COVID-19 on migrants in South Korea: Evidence from local outbreaks”, Asian Economic Journal 36(3) [IF: 1.3], pp. 229–260 [Link] [Online Supplement] (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.
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 [IF: 2.7] [Link] [Online Supplement] (Single-authored)

Working papers (Selective)

“Does sudden asylum seeker influx make native hosts more hostile?: Quasi-experimental evidence from South Korea”
“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?”

Policy advising & Committee activities (Selective)