Hyejin Ku

Hyejin Ku serves as Associate Professor of Economics at University College London and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), with additional affiliation as Project Leader at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin).

Her research program centers on labour economics and applied microeconomics, with recent investigations into how incentive structures and workplace policies influence productivity trajectories, career advancement patterns, and inequality dynamics. She has produced significant empirical work on immigration economics and has recently expanded her focus to knowledge creation mechanisms and technology diffusion processes, particularly examining China's growing role in global scientific production.

Publication trends reveal consistent contributions to migration and gender economics, including analyses of refugee integration policies in Denmark, gender norm impacts on labor supply using Vietnamese export shock data, and educational structures like single-sex schooling. Her 2025 work demonstrates continued leadership in studying China's scientific rise and its implications for knowledge production networks.

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Through her leadership positions at CReAM and RFBerlin, Ku actively shapes research agendas on migration economics and future-of-work challenges, directing collaborative projects that bridge academic analysis with policy-relevant insights.