Kun Lee

Hi,

I am Assistant Professor of Social Welfare Policy at the Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University and an affiliated scholar at Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). Previously, I was Tony Atkinson Fellow under the LIS2ER Joint Initiative at LIS and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), as well as visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Finnish Centre for Pensions, University of Mannheim and Humboldt University of Berlin. I hold a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Oxford.

As a quantitative social scientist and social policy researcher, my research broadly focuses on how social inequalities are shaped - reduced or reproduced - by welfare state institutions and social policies from a comparative perspective, against the common challenge of demographic transition and changing labor markets. The key topics of my research include inequalities in pensions and labour markets, poverty, income and wealth inequality, and social policy attitudes.

My research has been published in some of the leading journals in my field, such as the Journal of European Social Policy, Social Forces, Social Policy & Administration, and Socio-Economic Review.