About 

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I am a sociologist who studies gender, work, family, education, inequality, and social policy using quantitative methods with a focus on cross-national comparisons and social demography. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Siegen and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

My research has focused on three issues: (1) the effect of marriage on wages across cohorts in the United States (Journal of Marriage and Family), (2) race and gender differences in returns to education (Social Science Research),  and (3) race and cohort differences in family formation trends across generations in the United States (Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World). 

Some of my most recent work also explores (1) the gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation (European Sociological Review), (2) the relationship between motherhood and self-employment participation (Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy), and (3) the role of further training on job mobility (under review). 

Before joining the WZB, I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. I received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I hold a B.A. in Urban Sociology from the University of Seoul and an M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University.

You can contact me at misun.lim@wzb.eu.