Myeong-Su Yun

Research Fellow

Inha University

msyun@inha.ac.kr

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Myeong-Su Yun is a professor with tenure at the Department of Economics, Inha University since September 2017. He moved to Inha University in March 2016 after teaching at Tulane University from July 2002. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University and was a post-doctoral fellow for two years (August 2000 - July 2002) at Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario before becoming an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Tulane University from July 2002. He was promoted to an associate professor with tenure in 2009 at Tulane University. He has studied various issues of labor and development economics and related econometrics techniques, including labor supply, wage differentials, decomposition analysis, earnings inequality, mobility and convergence, poverty, migration, and economies in transition.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 836

A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2005, 43 (4), 766-772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 713

Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 629

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70

IZA Discussion Paper No. 580

Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 579

Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition

Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published as: 'Decomposing Male Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition' in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 43-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 578

Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union

Ira N. Gang, Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published as 'Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in: Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Emerald, 2010, 649-676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 572

Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

Catherine Y. Co, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2005, 9 (2), 150-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 145

Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model

Myeong-Su Yun

see DP 877 for a revised and general decomposition method

IZA Discussion Paper No. 70

Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community

Ira N. Gang, Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 69