Shuye Yu

Shuye Yu is an Affiliate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, affiliated with the Labor Demography Research Group under the Social Demography Department led by Director Mikko Myrskylä.

Her research centers on labor demography with emphases on occupational health, work-life balance, and well-being at work. She investigates how flexible work arrangements influence employee health outcomes and happiness, bridging demographic analysis with workplace psychology and labor economics. This interdisciplinary approach examines demographic patterns in labor participation alongside psychosocial determinants of workplace satisfaction.

Her 2022 unpublished work explores job flexibility as a mechanism for sustaining health and happiness in professional environments, contributing to MPIDR's focus on population health dynamics. This aligns with broader institutional research on labor force participation and demographic behavior.

As part of MPIDR's Labor Demography team, she collaborates within the Social Demography Department's framework studying fertility, well-being, and population health dynamics, leveraging the institute's demographic data infrastructure and computational methodologies.