Title: Essays on Immigrant Assimilation
PhD Supervisor: Martina Viarengo
Expected completion date: 2023
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.
Immigration Economics
Labor Economics
Microeconometrics
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)
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
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
Doctoral Affiliate, Global Migration Center