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.