Email: lijunyg@gmail.com

Research Fields

Labor market analysis, Occupational/industrial structures and social stratification, Employment and wage distribution policies, characteristics of the low-income population, family structures and poverty, migrant workers and the formation of underground economy and nonstandard employment relationship, social demography, the economic underpinnings of marriage formation, family, children and the life course, sources of poverty, longitudinal and panel data analysis, joint-longitudinal data analysis, applied statistics and quantitative methods

Education

2003.8 - 2009.12      Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

                              Dissertation: The integrative function of post-industrial US labor market for marriage formation:               

                              Three essays

                              Supervisors: Professor Janice F. Madden (Economist)

                                                 Professor Paul D. Allison (Statistician and Sociologist)

2001.8 - 2003.8       Department of Sociology, University of Akron

                              Supervisor: Professor Cheryl S. Elman (Sociologist)

1994.8 - 1998.8       School of International Business, School of English as a Second Language for Communication,

                              Beijing Foreign Studies University, B.A. in English (minor in Business Economics)

Work Experience

2010.3 - present      School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University

Awards and Honors

2008.9 - 2009.8       Dissertation Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

2008.6 - 2008.8       Pollok Summer Research Fellowship $ 5100, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

2003.8 - 2008.6       William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

2001.8 - 2003.8       Research Assistant Fellowship, University of Akron