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TAEHOON LEE

Taehoon Lee

PhD Researcher in International Economics
Spoken languages
English, Korean, French, Japanese
Areas of expertise
  • Migration and Labour
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • Europe

PhD Thesis

 

Title: Essays on Immigrant Assimilation

PhD Supervisor: Martina Viarengo

Expected completion date: 2023

 

Profile

 

Taehoon Lee is a PhD candidate in Development Economics and a consultant at the Migration Research Division in IOM. He holds a Master in Economics from Paris School of Economics, France and a BSc in Economic Theory and Statistics from New York University, USA. He worked as a research assistant and a research associate at nccr – on the move in Geneva and Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, respectively.

 

Research Interests

 

  • Immigration Economics

  • Labor Economics

  • Microeconometrics

 

Relevant Publications and Works

 

Lee, Tae Hoon & Peri, Giovanni & Viarengo, Martina, 2020. “The Gender Aspect of Immigrants’ Assimilation in Europe,” IZA Discussion Papers 13922, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

 

Academic Work Experience

 

Research Experience

Research Assistant at the National Center of Competence in Research – The Migration-Mobility Nexus (nccr – on the move) in Geneva

Research Associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo

 

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES

 

  • 2017-2018 Research Associate, Asian Development Bank Institute

  • 2022- Short Term Consultant, World Bank KNOMAD

  • 2021-2022 Intern, Part-time Consultant, IOM

  • 2021-2022 External Consultant, OECD

 

Afiliations

 

Doctoral Affiliate, Global Migration Center

 

Links

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