LIU Yang

Labor Economics, Migration Policy

• Empirical studies on issues of foreign employment and technology progress in a society with a persistent labor shortage (September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
• Empirical Studies on Employment, Migration, and Family Issues of Foreigners in Japan (March 26, 2018 - February 29, 2020)
• RIETI Data Management Project (April 1, 2015 -)

2012 Ph.D., Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
2009 M.S., Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
2006 Majored in Economics and Japanese, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

2014 - Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
2020 - Research committee member, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)
2015 - Adjunct Research Fellow, Center for East Asian Economic Studies, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
2012 - 2015 Visiting Researcher, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
2013 - 2014 Lecturer (part-time), Faculty of Economics, Setsunan University
2012 - 2014 Researcher, Asia Pacific Institute of Research (APIR)
2012 - 2013 Lecturer (part-time), Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
2011 - 2012 Research Assistant (part-time), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute

Books

• China's Urban Labor Market: A Structural Econometric Approach, Kyoto University Press & Hong Kong University Press, 2013.

Papers Published in Refereed Journals

• "Firm age, size, and firm-level job creation and destruction.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, in press, available online, 2024.
• "Immigrant-native gaps of unemployment and permanent employment in Japan." Economic Analysis and Policy, Volume 81, 2024.
• "Disparity in High School Enrollment between Native and Immigrant Children in Japan," Asian Economic Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, 2023, co-authored with Risa Hagiwara.
• "Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction", The World Economy, Volume46, Issue1, 2023, co-authored with Bin Ni and Hayato Kato.
• "Labour market and wage inequalities between permanent rural migrants and urban-born residents in China," Applied Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 9, 2022, co-authored with Keisuke Kawata.
• "Labour segmentation and outmigration in Japan: Evidence using firm–worker matching data," International Migration, Volume61, Issue2, 2023.
• "Job creation and destruction in Japan: Evidence from division-level employment data" Journal of Asian Economics, Vol.58, pp.59-71, 2018.
• "Role of Individual Social Capital in Wage Determination: Evidence from China." Asian Economic Journal, Vol.31, No.3, pp.239-252, 2017.
• "Job Search and Labor Market Outcomes of New Graduates in China: Using the Latest Available Survey Data," Review of Economics & Finance, Vol.7, No.1, pp.66-79, 2017.
• "Labor Market Matching and Unemployment in Urban China," China Economic Review, Vol.24, pp.108-128, 2013.
• "Job and Worker Reallocation in China," The Chinese Economy, Vol.46, No.5, pp.50-68, 2013.
• "Does Internal Immigration Always Lead to Urban Unemployment in Emerging Economies?: A Structural Approach Based on Data From China," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Vol.53, No.1, pp.85-105, 2012.
• "An Econometric Model of Disequilibrium Unemployment in Urban China," Tokegaku (Statistics), No.101, pp.17-29, 2011.
• "Labor Market Matching with Heterogeneous Job Seekers in China," Economics Bulletin, Vol.31 No.3, pp.1980-1992. 2011.

Academic Awards

• Book award, the 30th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, 2014 (China's Urban Labor Market: A Structural Econometric Approach, Kyoto University Press & Hong Kong University Press, 2013.)

Grants

• 2023 - 2028 JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), “Economic and social integration of immigrants in Japan: gender differences in behaviors and outcomes,” Grant Number 23K01432, Principal Investigator.
• 2019 - 2023 JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, “What causes low female labor supply?: separating the effect of culture from economic& social factors using large-scale data from Japan,” Grant Number 19K13733, Principal Investigator.
• 2016 - 2019 JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, “An empirical study on return migration of highly skilled workers in Japan,” Grant Number 16K17144, Principal Investigator.