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Research 研究

As labour markets shift and populations age, whom does social protection catch — and whom does it let fall through.

Research interests

The question 關切的問題

Recent work concentrates on gender gaps in pension systems: why women, under the same rules, retire on less. The gap is not only a matter of wages — it also follows from care responsibilities, non-standard employment, and the assumptions built into policy design itself.

  • Medical Sociology
  • Social Welfare Legislation & Social Policy
  • Gender Studies
  • Older Women's Employment
  • Non-standard Employment
  • Old-Age Economic Security
  • AI and Social Welfare

The empirical core is a comparison of Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, extended to individual retirement account systems in Europe and the United States. Methods combine microsimulation, dynamic simulation, and randomized survey experiments.

Research Grants

  1. 2025
    —2028

    How Pension Reform Reshapes Women's Late-Life Economic Security: Dynamic Simulation of Female Labor Participation and Pension Adequacy. National Science and Technology Council, NSTC 114-2410-H-031-088-MY3 (three-year project).

  2. 2026
    —2028

    Survey of Elderly Living Alone in Keelung City, FY 2025–2027 (Co-Principal Investigator). Commissioned by Keelung City Government (Aug 2026 – Jul 2028).

  3. 2026

    U.S. conservatives' attitudes toward defending Taiwan and Taiwan–U.S. AI cooperation (Principal Investigator). Ministry of Foreign Affairs Overseas Research Program (May – Dec 2026).

  4. 2026

    Digital Humanities Innovation Talent Program / Humanities AI Pilot Program. Ministry of Education, NT$50,000.

  5. 2025

    Gender Pension Gaps in Individual Retirement Accounts in Asia, the U.S., and European Countries (Lei De Young Scholar Award). Soochow University Friends Foundation, USD 9,677.

  6. 2025

    Cross-Department Faculty Community Grant. Human-Centered AI Research Center, NT$35,000.

  7. 2024
    —2025

    Gender Boundaries in Individual Retirement Account Incentives: A Three-Country Experimental Survey on Nudge Policy Design. National Science and Technology Council, NSTC 113-2410-H-031-084.

  8. 2023
    —2024

    Gender Pension Gaps in Transition: A Comparison of Three Welfare States. National Science and Technology Council, NSTC 112-2410-H-155-001.

Selected Conference Presentations

  1. 2026.06

    Huang, F.-Y., & Shizume, M. Pension innovation under super-aging: Gendered labor-supply legacies and redistributive correction across ten countries. 24th Annual Meeting of the Japan Welfare Sociology Association (JWS), Chuo University, Tokyo.

  2. 2026.04

    Huang, F.-Y., & Shizume, M. Gendered outcomes of productivist pension regimes: A dual-dimension analysis from East Asia. Work-Life Balance, Gender Inequality, and the Welfare State: Comparing Work and Families in Southern Europe and East Asia, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University, Taipei.

  3. 2026.03

    Huang, F.-Y., & Lin, J.-D. Inequality, political trust, and democratic resilience in public attitudes toward artificial intelligence. International Symposium on Social Responses to Crisis and Change, National Taiwan University, Taipei.

  4. 2026.01

    Huang, F.-Y. Demographic change, digitalisation, and the climate crisis: Social welfare in East Asia. Triple Transitions and Social Policy in East Asia, Yonsei University, Seoul.

  5. 2025.12

    Huang, F.-Y., & Shih, C.-I. Institutional responses to care penalties: Comparative trends in housewives' pensions and childcare-credit reforms in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. Social Policy Governance in East Asia, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.

  6. 2025.09

    Huang, F.-Y., & Meyer, T. Women's gains offsetting men's losses in pension reform. 2025 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver.

  7. 2025.07

    Huang, F.-Y., & Meyer, T. Women's gains offsetting men's losses? Pension reform, labour market change, and the pensioner household in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Europe. 2025 EASP & UK SPA Joint Conference, York University, UK.

  8. 2025.07

    Huang, F.-Y., Yeh, C.-Y., & Ku, Y.-W. Is more choice the right choice? Exploring public preferences for encouraging IRA savings through a randomized survey experiment. 2025 EASP & UK SPA Joint Conference, York University, UK.

  9. 2025.07

    Huang, F.-Y., & Yang, N. Politics of care: Unmasking the forces behind welfare in Germany, Korea and Taiwan's long-term care systems. IPSA World Congress, Seoul.

  10. 2024.10

    Huang, F.-Y., & Meyer, T. Pension reform and the gender pension gaps in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Social Policy Association of Japan 149th Conference, Oita University.

  11. 2024.09

    Huang, F.-Y. Gender justice in individual retirement account systems: The cases of America, Japan, and Taiwan. APSA 120th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

  12. 2024.06

    Huang, F.-Y., & Meyer, T. Women's gains offsetting men's losses? Gender pension gaps in Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. 2024 EASP & FISS Joint Conference, Kyoto.

  13. 2023.08

    Huang, F.-Y., & Lin, J.-D. Explaining gender-sensitive measures for COVID-19: The role of women's transnational organizations. Global Role of Asia-Indo Pacific in International Relations, Waseda University, Tokyo.

  14. 2023.03

    Huang, F.-Y. Gender pension gap in Taiwan, Japan, and the U.S. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.

  15. 2018.08

    Tzeng, R., Huang, F.-Y., Lee, J., & Lin, J.-D. Socioeconomic status and the changing gender gap of self-reported health in Taiwan during 1989–2011. American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.

  16. 2018.04

    Huang, F.-Y. Socioeconomic status and the changing gender gap of depression symptoms in Taiwan during 1989–2011. Population Association of America, Denver.

  17. 2017.08

    Huang, F.-Y. To work or not to work: Do ethnicity and cohort matter? American Sociological Association, Montreal.

Invited Lectures & Talks

  1. 2026.09

    Gender diversity and eliminating gender stereotypes. In-service training, Hsinchu North District Childcare Center (instructor accredited by the Social and Family Affairs Administration).

  2. 2026.05

    Transformation of labor markets and pension systems in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, 1997–2025. College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

  3. 2026.05

    Review Committee Member, evaluation panel for the commissioned project "Optimization of the Multi-Track Disposition Auto-Matching Prediction Model and Update of the Criminal Policy and Crime Research Database" (No. 115-A-013). Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice.

  4. 2026.03

    Smart policing and digital crime: How AI is rewriting criminal justice. Ministry of Education "Fab Talk" Lecture Series.

  5. 2025.05

    Gender pension gaps in East Asia. 2025 Global Project Lecture Series, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

  6. 2025.05

    Advisory Committee Member, Survey on Financial Products for the Elderly. Control Yuan, Taiwan.

  7. 2024.07

    Old-age economic security for middle-aged and older women: Cases of divorced and widowed women. Rongxin Education Institution / Taoyuan City Social Worker Training.

  8. 2023.12

    Recent developments and future outlook of U.S. healthcare. Yongfeng Securities Forum.

  9. 2023.10

    Gender and economic security. Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.

  10. 2023.07

    Analyzing the U.S. healthcare industry profit chain: VBC penetration, MLR fluctuations, and reinvestment strategies. Yongfeng Securities Forum.

  11. 2023.04

    Establishing a gender equality index framework for Taiwan. Gender Equality Division, Executive Yuan.

  12. 2023.03

    Gender pension gaps in Taiwan and Japan. College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

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