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Munseob Lee
Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego
Munseob Lee is an Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). He is also a director of the GPS's Korea-Pacific Program. His research areas are macroeconomics, economic growth, and development economics. Lee has been a short-term consultant at the World Bank, a visiting fellow at the Asian Development Bank, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Recent work by Munseob Lee
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Understanding the lack of skill specialisation in Peru
Jobs in Peru use a larger number of skills than comparable jobs in the US. This lack of specialisation is consistent with firms’ hiring of "toderos" (workers with many skills, do-it-alls), given the high levels of worker reallocation.
Published 29.07.24
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Gender disparities reduce agricultural productivity in developing countries
The misallocation of women’s talent, due to barriers to entering non-agricultural work, leads to sizable productivity losses
Published 06.06.24
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The plant-level view of an industrial policy: The Korean heavy industry drive of 1973
Korea’s promotion of heavy and chemical industries would have been more successful if it had not come with a rise in concentration and misallocation
Published 25.10.21
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Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US
Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated
Published 02.10.20