Kelvin Yuen

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Macroeconomics
• Labor economics
• Entrepreneurship

Academic qualification

• Ph.D. 2021 Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
• MSc. 2014 Economics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Bachelor of Economics and Finance, The University of hong Kong, 2012

Companies

• Affiliate Assistant Professor of Economics HKUST Business School (2021)
• Assistant Professor of Urban Governance and Design HKUST (GZ) (2021)
• Adjunct Instructor Washington University in St. Louis (2017 — 2020)

Publications

• “Mortality Decline, Productivity Increase, and Positive Feedback Between Schooling and Retirement Choices” (with Z. Cai & S.-H. P. Lau), Accepted at Journal of Demographic Economics
• “Occupational Mobility and Lifetime Earnings,” (with Yongseok Shin), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Third Quarter 2019, pp. 231-44.

Working Papers

1. “Unemployment Risk and Entrepreneurship”
2. “Moving for Better Skill Match” (with Mariana Odio Zuniga), Oct 2020, Under review
3. “Health, Crime, and the Labor Market: Theory and Policy Analysis” (with Yuki Otsu), Jun 2020, Under review
4. “Minimum Wage in a Multi-Tier Search and Wage-Posting Model with Cross-Market Substitutions” (with Ping Wang), Oct 2019, NBER Working Paper No. 26378
5. “Inefficient Unemployment and Bargaining Friction”, Oct 2019, Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Dynamics