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-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11160

Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10049

Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

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

published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9715

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China

Carl Lin, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9381

An Alternative Estimator for Industrial Gender Wage Gaps: A Normalized Regression Approach

Myeong-Su Yun, Eric S. Lin

published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8226

Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation

Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2014, 26 (4), 509–526

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6295

Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India

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

published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2017, 29(2), 476–492

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5684

Managerial Valuation of Applicant Credentials and Personal Traits in Hiring Decisions

James R. Jones, Catherine Y. Co, James K. Harter, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4853

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy

John R. Bowblis, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Social Science Research, 2010, 39 (4), 674-684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3971

Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models

Daniel A. Powers, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Sociological Methodology, 2009, 39(1), 233-263

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3780

Changes in Korean Wage Inequality, 1980−2005

Byung-Goo Kang, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3652

The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860

Jonathan B. Pritchett, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2009, 46 (2), 241-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3518

Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking? A Simple Test

Ting Hu, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3453

Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

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

published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(39), 43-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2937

Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Inequality: A Cautionary Note on the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition Method

Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56(1), 114-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2682

Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 51(2): 242-264, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2427

Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem

Myeong-Su Yun

see DP9381 for extended and revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2262

A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates: Algorithm and Example

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1822

Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference

Myeong-Su Yun

revised version published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2008, 33 (1), 27-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1772

Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(4), 754-773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 877

Decomposing Differences in the First Moment

Myeong-Su Yun

published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 82 (2), 275-280

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