Research
Link to my Google scholar & ResearchGate profiles
Link to my Google scholar & ResearchGate profiles
Choi, Y., Margolis, R., & Holm, A. "The Effects of Extended Parental Benefits on Parents’ Employment and Earnings in Canada." Demography. 2025
Choi, Y. & Frank, K. "Diversity, economic characteristics, and retention of early learning and child care workers in Canada." Journal of Research in Childhood Education. 2024.
Choi, Y. "Individual, family, and employer: factors associated with fathers' use of parental leave." Family Relations. 2023.
Choi, Y., Hou, F., & Chan, Y. P. W. "Early earnings trajectories of international students after graduation from postsecondary programs: evidence from Canadian administrative data." Education Economics. 2022. (Earlier version of a Statistics Canada report here)
Margolis, R., Choi, Y., Holm, A., & Mehta, N. "The Effect of Expanded Parental Benefits on Union Dissolution". Journal of Marriage and Family. 2020.
Margolis, R., & Choi, Y. "The Growing and Shifting Divorced Population in Canada". Canadian Population Studies. 2020.
Margolis, R., Choi, Y., Hou, F., & Haan, M. "Capturing Trends in Divorce in an Era without Vital Statistics". Demographic Research. 2019.
Zhong, J., Lu, Y., Choi, Y. & Zhang, J. 2024. Temporary foreign workers with lower-skill occupations in the accommodation and food services industry: Transition to permanent residency and industrial retention after transition. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Zhang, J., Lu, Y., Choi, Y. & Zhong, J. 2024. Temporary foreign workers with lower-skill occupations in the food manufacturing industry: Transition to permanent residency and industrial retention after transition. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y. and Hou, F. 2023. Characteristics of postsecondary international students who did not enrol in publicly funded postsecondary education programs. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y. 2023. Labour market participation of parents with young children. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y. 2023. Employment situations and child care arrangements after mothers’ return to work following parental leave. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y and Hou, F. 2023. A comparison of postsecondary enrolment trends between domestic and international students by field of study. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Picot, G., Choi, Y., Gure, Y. and Hou, F. 2023. The effect of parents’ education and income on the educational attainment of childhood immigrants. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y. 2023. The likelihood and timing of mothers returning to work after parental leave. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y. 2023. Diversity and retention of early learning and child care workers in Canada. Infographic. Statistics Canada.
Choi, Y. 2022. Gender differences in sociodemographic and economic characteristics of early learning child care workers. Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada.
"International students as a source of labour supply" on Economic and Social Reports. Statistics Canada (with Hou, F. & E. Crossden).
International students as a source of labour supply: A summary of recent trends. 2022.
International students as a source of labour supply: Transition to permanent residency. 2021.
International students as a source of labour supply: Retention in their province of study. 2021.
Frenette, M., Choi, Y., & Doreleyers, A. 2020. International Student Enrolment in Postsecondary Education Programs Prior to COVID-19. Economic Insights. Statistics Canada.
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation. 2020. Characteristics of adults who return to education: Understanding barriers to adult learning. Social Research and Demonstration Corporation. Ottawa. (worked on data analysis and writing as an external researcher)
Choi, Youjin. "Essays on Parental Leave and Family Labour Supply". 2018.
Chapter 2. Parental Leave and Married Individuals’ Time Allocations in Canada and the U.S.
Chapter 3. The effects of child-related leaves on a married couple's fertility and labour decisions in a household search framework
Chapter 4. Why don't married men take parental leave?
Why don't married men take parental leave?
Despite its availability, only a few married men use parental leave in Canada while almost all eligible married women take parental leave. I examine the relative importance of various gender differences as possible explanations in a life-cycle model of family labour supply that features learning-by-doing human capital accumulation and time allocations across market work, leisure, and home production. I find that the gender differences in home productivity, rental rates of human capital, and wage penalties for not working are three major contributors to the low take-up of fathers. I also find that fathers' take-up rate is responsive to the introduction of paternity leave when it is combined with offering higher replacement rates.
Prior literature uses an individual search model to examine how maternity leave is related to maternal labour market behaviour. I develop a unique household search model that features home production and endogenous fertility choice, to emphasize couples’ joint decisions. Characterizing reservation rules in the household search model, I find that this model can generate patterns that cannot be generated by an individual search model. Using a benchmark model that provides 12 weeks of unpaid leave as in the U.S, I examine how the introduction of a more generous maternity leave policy influences fertility rates and household employment. I find that a longer paid maternity leave increases fertility rates, lowers the fraction of dual-earner couples, and increases the fraction of single-earner couples.
Parental Leave and Married Individuals’ Time Allocations in Canada and the U.S.
Canada and the U.S. have very different parental leave policies. I describe how differences in married individuals’ time allocations between the two countries may be related to different parental leave policies in the two countries. First, I document background information on parental leave policies and take-up behaviour in the two countries. Second, using data from the General Social Survey for Canada and American Time Use Survey for the U.S., I examine the role of having children and age of the youngest child on married individuals’ time allocations across market work, child care, household chores, and leisure and make cross-country comparisons.