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.
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
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2025
—2028How 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).
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2026
—2028Survey of Elderly Living Alone in Keelung City, FY 2025–2027 (Co-Principal Investigator). Commissioned by Keelung City Government (Aug 2026 – Jul 2028).
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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).
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2026
Digital Humanities Innovation Talent Program / Humanities AI Pilot Program. Ministry of Education, NT$50,000.
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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.
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2025
Cross-Department Faculty Community Grant. Human-Centered AI Research Center, NT$35,000.
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2024
—2025Gender 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.
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2023
—2024Gender Pension Gaps in Transition: A Comparison of Three Welfare States. National Science and Technology Council, NSTC 112-2410-H-155-001.
Selected Conference Presentations
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2025.09
Huang, F.-Y., & Meyer, T. Women's gains offsetting men's losses in pension reform. 2025 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2024.09
Huang, F.-Y. Gender justice in individual retirement account systems: The cases of America, Japan, and Taiwan. APSA 120th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
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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.
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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.
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2023.03
Huang, F.-Y. Gender pension gap in Taiwan, Japan, and the U.S. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
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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.
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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.
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2017.08
Huang, F.-Y. To work or not to work: Do ethnicity and cohort matter? American Sociological Association, Montreal.
Invited Lectures & Talks
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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).
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2026.05
Transformation of labor markets and pension systems in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, 1997–2025. College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
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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.
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2026.03
Smart policing and digital crime: How AI is rewriting criminal justice. Ministry of Education "Fab Talk" Lecture Series.
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2025.05
Gender pension gaps in East Asia. 2025 Global Project Lecture Series, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
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2025.05
Advisory Committee Member, Survey on Financial Products for the Elderly. Control Yuan, Taiwan.
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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.
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2023.12
Recent developments and future outlook of U.S. healthcare. Yongfeng Securities Forum.
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2023.10
Gender and economic security. Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.
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2023.07
Analyzing the U.S. healthcare industry profit chain: VBC penetration, MLR fluctuations, and reinvestment strategies. Yongfeng Securities Forum.
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2023.04
Establishing a gender equality index framework for Taiwan. Gender Equality Division, Executive Yuan.
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2023.03
Gender pension gaps in Taiwan and Japan. College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.