National Taipei University Department of Economics

1. Chen, Wen-Hao, L. Bentley, M. Whitehead, A. McAllister & B. Barr. “Poverty and sources of income support among older people with disabilities and out of work: comparison of Canada and the United Kingdom.” Journal of Social Policy, forthcoming. (SSCI)
2. McAllister, A., T. Bodin, H. Brønnum-Hansen, L. Harber-Aschan, B. Barr, L. Bentley, Q. Liao, N.K Jensen, I. Andersen, Wen-Hao Chen, K. Thielen, C. Mustard, F. Diderichsen, M. Whitehead and B. Burstrom. (2020). “Inequalities in extending working lives beyond age 60 in Canada, Denmark, Sweden and England—By gender, level of education and health.” PLoS ONE 15(8): e0234900. (SCIE)
3. Harber-Aschan L, Chen Wen-Hao, McAllister A, Koitzsch Jensen N, Thielen K, Andersen I, et al. (2020). “The impact of longstanding illness and common mental disorder on competing employment exits routes in older working age: A longitudinal data-linkage study in Sweden.” PLoS ONE 15(2): e0229221. (SCIE)
4. Chen, Wen-Hao. (2019). “Health and Transitions into Nonemployment and Early Retirement among Older Workers in Canada.” Economics and Human Biology, 35, 193-206. (SSCI)
5. Chen, Wen-Hao & Feng Hou. (2019). “Social Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes among the Second Generation of Racial Minority Immigrants in Canada.” Social Science Quarterly, 100(3), 885-896. (SSCI)
6. Chen, Wen-Hao & Tahsin Mehdi. (2019). “Assessing Job Quality in Canada: A Multidimensional Approach.” Canadian Public Policy, 45(2), 173-191. (SSCI)
7. Chen, Wen-Hao & Feng Hou. (2019). “The Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction: A Cross-National Comparison between Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.” Applied Research in Quality of Life, 14, 1035-58. (SSCI)
8. Van der Wel, Kjetil A., Therese Saltkjel, Wen-Hao Chen, Espen Dahl & Knut Halvorsen. (2018). “European health inequality through the Great Recession: Social policy matters.” Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(4), 750-768. (SSCI)
9. Chen, Wen-Hao, Yuri Ostrovsky & Patrizio Piraino. (2017). “Lifecycle Variation, Errors-in-Variables Bias and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Income Transmission: New Evidence from Canada.” Labour Economics, 44, 1-12. (SSCI)
10. Chen, Wen-Hao, Michael Förster & Ana Llena Nozal. (2013). “Demographic or Labour Market Trends: What Determines the Distribution of Household Earnings in OECD Countries?” OECD Journal: Economic Studies, OECD, Paris. (EconLit)
11. Aydemir, Abdurrahman, Wen-Hao Chen, & Miles Corak. (2013). “Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants.” Canadian Public Policy. 39(S1), 107-122. (SSCI)
12. Chen, Wen-Hao, Garnett Picot and John Myles. (2012). "Why Have Poorer Neighbourhoods Stagnated Economically while the Richer Have Flourished? Neighbourhood Income Inequality in Canadian Cities." Urban Studies, 49(4), 877-896. (SSCI)
13. Chen, Wen-Hao & Jean-Yves Duclos. (2011). “Testing for Poverty Dominance: an Application to Canada.” Canadian Journal of Economics, 44(3), 781-803. (SSCI)
14. Holland, P, Burstom, B, Diderichsen, F, Dahl, E, Barr, B, Nylen, L, Chen, Wen-Hao, Thielen, K, A van der Wel, K, Clayton, S and Uppal, S. (2011). “How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? Part I & Part II: The Impact of Recession and Deindustrialization.” International Journal of Health Services, 41(3), 395 – 430. (SSCI)
15. Chen, Wen-Hao. (2010). “The Impact of the Employment Insurance Repayment Policy: Non-Experimental Approaches.” Applied Economics, 42(10), 1209-1226. (SSCI)
16. Chen, Wen-Hao. (2009). “Cross-National Differences in Income Mobility: Evidence from Canada, the United States, Great Britain and Germany.” Review of Income and Wealth, 55(1), 75-100. (SSCI)
17. Aydemir, Abdurrahman, Wen-Hao Chen, & Miles Corak. (2009). “Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(2), 377-397. (SSCI)
18. Chen, Wen-Hao & Miles Corak. (2008). “Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty.” Demography, 45(3), 537-553. (SSCI)
19. Corak, Miles & Wen-Hao Chen. (2007). “Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data.” Research in Labor Economics, 26, 299-336. (EconLit)

1. Chriscuolo, C., A. Hijzen, C. Schwellnus, E. Barth, Wen-Hao Chen, et al. (2020). “Workforce composition, productivity and pay: the role of firms in wage inequality.” OECD Economic Department Working Paper No. 1603, OECD Publishing, Paris.
2. Chen, Wen-Hao and René Morissette. (2020). “How Do Workers Displaced from Energyproducing Sectors Fare after Job Loss? Evidence from the Oil and Gas Industry.” Economic Insights, Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 11-626-X — 2020021 - No. 123, Ottawa.
3. Chen, Wen-Hao. (2014). “Non-standard work, Job Polarisation and Labour Market Inequalities” the joint project "Jobs, Wages and Inequality" work package 3 - chapter 3 VS/2012/0052 (SI2.625180), OECD, Paris.
4. Chen, Wen-Hao, Michael Förster & Ana Llena Nozal. (2013). “Globalisation, Technological Progress and Changes in Regulations and Institutions – which Impact on the Rise of Earnings Inequality in OECD Countries?” LIS working paper series, No. 597.
5. Chen, Wen-Hao & René Morissette. (2010). “Have Employment Patterns of Older Displaced Workers Improved Since the Late 1970s?” CLSRN Working Paper no. 61, Vancouver.
6. Chen, Wen-Hao. (2008). “Comparing Low Income of Canada＊s Regions: A Stochastic Dominance Approach.” Income Research Paper Series, No. 6, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.
7. Corak, Miles & Wen-Hao Chen. (2003). “Who Benefits from Unemployment Insurance in Canada: Regions, Industries, or Individual Firms?” SRDC Working Paper Series 03-07.
8. Chen, Wen-Hao. (2004). Essays on Employment Insurance, Income Mobility, and Family Income Distribution, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Economics, Michigan State University.
9. Principal author of chapters 4 and 5 in In It Together: why less inequality benefits all (OECD 2015). http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/e...
10. Principal author of chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Divided we Stand: why inequality keeps rising (OECD 2011). http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/s...

Refereeing for: Economics and Human Biology, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Happiness Studies, Canadian Public Policy, Economic Systems, Economic Papers, OECD Journal of Economic Studies, Statistics Canada Research Paper Series, Perspectives on Labour and Income, Insights on Canadian Society, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) external assessor.

Member of: The American Economic Association (AEA), Canadian Economic Association (CEA), and The Society of Labor Economists (SOLE).