Chen-Hao Hsu

DAAD SCHOLARSHIP HOLDER

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Office: Feldkirchenstr. 21, Room: FG1/00.05 96052 Bamberg, Germany 
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E-Mail: chen-hao.hsu(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: 49 (0) 951/863 - 2423
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Pillar 3: Changes in Human Capital, Labour Markets and Demographic Structures and their Impact on Social Structures in Modern Societies

Field: Sociology

Research Interests: Family demography,Labour market sociology, Welfare policies, Health and wellbeing


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// DISSERTATION PROJECT


Uncertainty, Family Formation, and Motherhood Penalties: A Cross-National Comparison of Women's Work-Family Decisions

 

This research explores the dynamic relationship between work and family over individual life-course. With a holistic perspective, I will focus on the timing of each work-family events and examine how they are related to each other. For example, how early-life employment uncertainty affect the timing of marriage and childbirth? On the other hand, how does family formation affect women’s longer-term employment outcomes? Are these work-family association unanimously apply to women in different social groups? Furthermore, is there a cross-national heterogeneity in such relationships. The central idea of this research is that different institutional setups may lead to individuals’ various reactions to economic uncertainty, and thus affect their family behaviors.
At the micro level, I will rely on longitudinal data and several causal inference techniques to disentangle the complex inter-relationship between women’s employment and family behaviors. At the macro level, I will apply a multilevel framework to demonstrate the extent to which women’s fertility responses to economic uncertainties are moderated by various family policies. The research will also discuss the impacts of institutional variations on women’s post-childbirth employment trajectories and the corresponding labor market outcomes.
The scope of this research covers not only European and Northern American countries but also East Asian industrial societies, including Japan and Taiwan. With an East-West comparative framework, the study aims to contribute to current debates over the efficacy of family policies in countering the negative impacts of rising uncertainty on women’s work and family lives.

 

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND  

 

2014 - 2016
Master's Degree (M.A.) in Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Thesis: "Corporate responses to the new labor pension reform in Taiwan: The relationship between technical and institutional concerns"

2010 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) in International Business, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 

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// EXPERIENCE


Academic Experience

2017 - 2019
Research Assistant at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Research project: "Population and Labor Force Projections with Education up to 2050: Taiwan and its Aging Neighbors"

2015 - 2016
Project Research Assistant at National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Topic: "The Economic and Social Impact of Contigent Employment in Taiwan."

2015
Project Research Assistant at National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Topic: "Social Capital and Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan."

2014 - 2015
Research Assistant at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taiwan


Non-Academic Experience

2016
Product Manager Intern at PCHOME Thailand Co. Ltd., Taiwan

2013
Policy Reseach Intern at the Bureau of Foreign Trade, Taiwan

 

Teaching Experience:

2015 - 2016
Teaching Assistant for the course "Organizational Theory" at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

 

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