I presented my current research project titled “Job Search, Job Findings and the Role of Unemployment Insurance History” to the following workshops and international conferences: Keio University, Search Theory Workshop (Nagoya University/Kobe University).

My project received many useful and instructive comments and suggestions during my presentation sessions from these conferences. I had later used them to improve and revise my draft for this project, particularly the estimation part, so that it will be appropriate to be submitted for the consideration of publication at a high-impact journal afterwards.

Additionally, I also started a new research project titled “The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on the Cyclicality of Labour Force Participation” with Ran Gu who is a lecturer in economics at the University of Essex and a research scholar at the Institute of Fiscal Studies. In this project, we study how unemployment insurance extensions may affect the decisions of workers to enter the labour force under a general equilibrium setup.