Ken-Hou Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken-Hou Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken-Hou |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8373-1404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Financialization in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Trends and Emerging Research Directions
Following the 2008 financial crisis, financialization has emerged as a central research program for analyzing the changing economy and its broader social consequences. This article examines recent scholarship on financialization and argues that this economic transformation has evolved substantially in the past two decades, demanding a more expansive analytical framework and new research directions. Focusing on the economy-wide organization of cap…
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns
Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies
While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changi…
The Rising Importance of Stock-Linked Assets in the Black–White Wealth Gap
Studies have examined the racial disparities in household characteristics, homeownership, and familial transfer as primary drivers of the Black–White wealth gap in the United States. This study assesses the importance of stock-linked assets in generating wealth inequality. As financial assets become a growing component of household portfolios, the Black–White wealth gap is increasingly associated with the racial disparity in stock-linked assets. …
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time
Existing scholarship usually presents people's attitudes about guns as fixed and fully formed. Rarely are such attitudes examined as the outcome of social processes. As a result, while we know a great deal about what people think about guns, we know very little about the development of these beliefs. In this paper, we use a combination of surveys and life history interviews with a national sample of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 …
The Network Structure of Occupations: Fragmentation, Differentiation, and Contagion
Occupational structure is commonly viewed as either hierarchical or organized around stable classes. Yet, recent studies have proposed to describe occupational structure as a network, where the mobility of workers demarcates boundaries. Moving beyond boundary detection, this article develops occupational networks as a dynamic system in which between-occupation exchange is shaped by occupational similarities and occupational attributes are in turn…
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
The data behind a distinct form of racism in online datingThe Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at ";digital-sexual racism,"; a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds a…
Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis
Firm Size and Employment during the Pandemic
Previous studies have established that firm size is associated with a wage premium, but the wage premium has declined in recent decades. The authors examine the risk for unemployment by firm size during the initial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in the United States. Using both yearly and state-month variation, the authors find greater excess unemployment among workers in small enterprises than among those in larger firms. The gaps cannot b…
Divested: Inequality in Financialized America
Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. This book demonstrates why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing…
Motherhood Wage Penalties in Latin America: The Significance of Labor Informality
revious research has established the presence of a motherhood wage penalty in many developed societies; however, whether mothers face similar disadvantages in developing countries remains underexplored. This article argues that different intervening factors emerge when considering mothers’ labor compensation in developing contexts. Labor informality, a key characteristic of labor markets in developing countries, could play a significant role in s…
Tipping the Multiracial Color-Line: Racialized Preferences of Multiracial Online Daters
Immigration and the Wage Distribution in the United States
This article assesses the connection between immigration and wage inequality in the United States. Departing from the focus on how the average wages of different native groups respond to immigration, we examine how immigrants shape the overall wage distribution. Despite evidence indicating that an increased presence of low-skilled immigrants is associated with losses at the lower end of wage distribution, we do not observe a similar result betwee…
Union, Premium Cost, and the Provision of Employment-based Health Insurance
The decline of employment-based health plans is commonly attributed to rising premium costs. Using restricted data and a matched sample from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component, the authors extend previous studies by testing the relationships among premium costs, employment relationships, and the provision of health benefits between 1999 and 2012. The authors report that both establishment- and state-level union densities are…
Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium in Finance
Previous research documents a growing wage premium for elite financial workers since the 1980s. A second line of research finds substantial gender disparities in earnings and career mobility among elite financial workers. Yet little is known about whether women in finance still receive a wage premium compared with their nonfinance counterparts. In addition, few studies examine whether similar gender disparities exist among nonelite financial work…
Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multistate Analysis
Recent waves of legislation have made it much easier for gun owners to obtain a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) and thereby carry their guns in public except when explicitly prohibited. Because data are difficult to access, our understanding of who seeks and obtains such licenses remains limited. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, this article fills this empirical gap by describing demographic trends and characterist…
The Financial Premium in the US Labor Market: A Distributional Analysis
Using both cross-sectional and panel data, this article revisits the evolution of the financial premium between 1970 and 2011 with a distributional approach. I report that above-market compensation was present in the finance sector in the 1970s, but concentrated mostly at the bottom of the earnings distribution. The financial premium observed since the 1980s, however, is largely driven by excessive compensation at the top, a development that incr…
Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace: Treatment of Multiracial Daters in an Online Dating Website
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent,…
Did financialization reduce economic growth
We explore the consequences of increased financial investment by non-financial firms, finding consistent evidence that financialization in the non-finance sector reduced economic growth in that sector. Employing an expanded conceptualization of value added which identifies internal (capital, labour) and external (creditors, government, charities) stakeholders with claims on the value generated in production and exchange, we find that the declinin…
Residential hierarchy in Los Angeles: An examination of ethnic and documentation status differences
Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–2008
Focusing on U.S. nonfinance industries, we examine the connectionbetween financialization and rising income inequality. We argue thatthe increasing reliance on earnings realized through financial channelsdecoupled the generation of surplus from production, strengtheningownersâ and elite workersâ negotiating power relative to other workers.The result was an incremental exclusion of the general workforce fromrevenue-generating and compensation-sett…
Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education
In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does …
Revisiting the gap between stylized and diary estimates of market work time
Income Dynamics, Economic Rents, and the Financialization of the U.S. Economy
The 2008 collapse of the world financial system, while proximately linked to the housing bubble and risk-laden mortgage backed securities, was a consequence of the financialization of the U.S. economy since the 1970s. This article examines the institutional and income dynamics associated with the financialization of the U.S. economy, advancing a sociological explanation of income shifts into the finance sector. Complementary developments include …
Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education
In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does …
Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–2008
Focusing on U.S. nonfinance industries, we examine the connectionbetween financialization and rising income inequality. We argue thatthe increasing reliance on earnings realized through financial channelsdecoupled the generation of surplus from production, strengtheningownersâ and elite workersâ negotiating power relative to other workers.The result was an incremental exclusion of the general workforce fromrevenue-generating and compensation-sett…
Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace: Treatment of Multiracial Daters in an Online Dating Website
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent,…
Did financialization reduce economic growth
We explore the consequences of increased financial investment by non-financial firms, finding consistent evidence that financialization in the non-finance sector reduced economic growth in that sector. Employing an expanded conceptualization of value added which identifies internal (capital, labour) and external (creditors, government, charities) stakeholders with claims on the value generated in production and exchange, we find that the declinin…
The Network Structure of Occupations: Fragmentation, Differentiation, and Contagion
Occupational structure is commonly viewed as either hierarchical or organized around stable classes. Yet, recent studies have proposed to describe occupational structure as a network, where the mobility of workers demarcates boundaries. Moving beyond boundary detection, this article develops occupational networks as a dynamic system in which between-occupation exchange is shaped by occupational similarities and occupational attributes are in turn…
Immigration and the Wage Distribution in the United States
This article assesses the connection between immigration and wage inequality in the United States. Departing from the focus on how the average wages of different native groups respond to immigration, we examine how immigrants shape the overall wage distribution. Despite evidence indicating that an increased presence of low-skilled immigrants is associated with losses at the lower end of wage distribution, we do not observe a similar result betwee…
Residential hierarchy in Los Angeles: An examination of ethnic and documentation status differences
Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multistate Analysis
Recent waves of legislation have made it much easier for gun owners to obtain a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) and thereby carry their guns in public except when explicitly prohibited. Because data are difficult to access, our understanding of who seeks and obtains such licenses remains limited. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, this article fills this empirical gap by describing demographic trends and characterist…
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies
While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changi…
Tipping the Multiracial Color-Line: Racialized Preferences of Multiracial Online Daters
Do less-skilled immigrants work more? Examining the work time of Mexican immigrant men in the United States
The Rising Importance of Stock-Linked Assets in the Black–White Wealth Gap
Studies have examined the racial disparities in household characteristics, homeownership, and familial transfer as primary drivers of the Black–White wealth gap in the United States. This study assesses the importance of stock-linked assets in generating wealth inequality. As financial assets become a growing component of household portfolios, the Black–White wealth gap is increasingly associated with the racial disparity in stock-linked assets. …
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time
Existing scholarship usually presents people's attitudes about guns as fixed and fully formed. Rarely are such attitudes examined as the outcome of social processes. As a result, while we know a great deal about what people think about guns, we know very little about the development of these beliefs. In this paper, we use a combination of surveys and life history interviews with a national sample of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 …
Firm Size and Employment during the Pandemic
Previous studies have established that firm size is associated with a wage premium, but the wage premium has declined in recent decades. The authors examine the risk for unemployment by firm size during the initial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in the United States. Using both yearly and state-month variation, the authors find greater excess unemployment among workers in small enterprises than among those in larger firms. The gaps cannot b…
Union, Premium Cost, and the Provision of Employment-based Health Insurance
The decline of employment-based health plans is commonly attributed to rising premium costs. Using restricted data and a matched sample from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component, the authors extend previous studies by testing the relationships among premium costs, employment relationships, and the provision of health benefits between 1999 and 2012. The authors report that both establishment- and state-level union densities are…
Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium in Finance
Previous research documents a growing wage premium for elite financial workers since the 1980s. A second line of research finds substantial gender disparities in earnings and career mobility among elite financial workers. Yet little is known about whether women in finance still receive a wage premium compared with their nonfinance counterparts. In addition, few studies examine whether similar gender disparities exist among nonelite financial work…
Revisiting the gap between stylized and diary estimates of market work time
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns
Income Dynamics, Economic Rents, and the Financialization of the U.S. Economy
The 2008 collapse of the world financial system, while proximately linked to the housing bubble and risk-laden mortgage backed securities, was a consequence of the financialization of the U.S. economy since the 1970s. This article examines the institutional and income dynamics associated with the financialization of the U.S. economy, advancing a sociological explanation of income shifts into the finance sector. Complementary developments include …
Do less-skilled immigrants work more? Examining the work time of Mexican immigrant men in the United States
Revisiting the gap between stylized and diary estimates of market work time
Financialization and U.S. Income Inequality, 1970–2008
Focusing on U.S. nonfinance industries, we examine the connectionbetween financialization and rising income inequality. We argue thatthe increasing reliance on earnings realized through financial channelsdecoupled the generation of surplus from production, strengtheningownersâ and elite workersâ negotiating power relative to other workers.The result was an incremental exclusion of the general workforce fromrevenue-generating and compensation-sett…
Mate Selection in Cyberspace: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Education
In this article, the authors examine how race, gender, and education jointly shape interaction among heterosexual Internet daters. They find that racial homophily dominates mate-searching behavior for both men and women. A racial hierarchy emerges in the reciprocating process. Women respond only to men of similar or more dominant racial status, while nonblack men respond to all but black women. Significantly, the authors find that education does …
Residential hierarchy in Los Angeles: An examination of ethnic and documentation status differences
The Financial Premium in the US Labor Market: A Distributional Analysis
Using both cross-sectional and panel data, this article revisits the evolution of the financial premium between 1970 and 2011 with a distributional approach. I report that above-market compensation was present in the finance sector in the 1970s, but concentrated mostly at the bottom of the earnings distribution. The financial premium observed since the 1980s, however, is largely driven by excessive compensation at the top, a development that incr…
Positioning Multiraciality in Cyberspace: Treatment of Multiracial Daters in an Online Dating Website
The U.S. multiracial population has grown substantially in the past decades, yet little is known about how these individuals are positioned in the racial hierarchies of the dating market. Using data from one of the largest dating websites in the United States, we examine how monoracial daters respond to initial messages sent by multiracial daters with various White/non-White racial and ethnic makeups. We test four different theories: hypodescent,…
Did financialization reduce economic growth
We explore the consequences of increased financial investment by non-financial firms, finding consistent evidence that financialization in the non-finance sector reduced economic growth in that sector. Employing an expanded conceptualization of value added which identifies internal (capital, labour) and external (creditors, government, charities) stakeholders with claims on the value generated in production and exchange, we find that the declinin…
Gender, Parental Status, and the Wage Premium in Finance
Previous research documents a growing wage premium for elite financial workers since the 1980s. A second line of research finds substantial gender disparities in earnings and career mobility among elite financial workers. Yet little is known about whether women in finance still receive a wage premium compared with their nonfinance counterparts. In addition, few studies examine whether similar gender disparities exist among nonelite financial work…
Trends and Patterns of Concealed Handgun License Applications: A Multistate Analysis
Recent waves of legislation have made it much easier for gun owners to obtain a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) and thereby carry their guns in public except when explicitly prohibited. Because data are difficult to access, our understanding of who seeks and obtains such licenses remains limited. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, this article fills this empirical gap by describing demographic trends and characterist…
Union, Premium Cost, and the Provision of Employment-based Health Insurance
The decline of employment-based health plans is commonly attributed to rising premium costs. Using restricted data and a matched sample from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component, the authors extend previous studies by testing the relationships among premium costs, employment relationships, and the provision of health benefits between 1999 and 2012. The authors report that both establishment- and state-level union densities are…
Immigration and the Wage Distribution in the United States
This article assesses the connection between immigration and wage inequality in the United States. Departing from the focus on how the average wages of different native groups respond to immigration, we examine how immigrants shape the overall wage distribution. Despite evidence indicating that an increased presence of low-skilled immigrants is associated with losses at the lower end of wage distribution, we do not observe a similar result betwee…
Divested: Inequality in Financialized America
Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. This book demonstrates why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing…
Motherhood Wage Penalties in Latin America: The Significance of Labor Informality
revious research has established the presence of a motherhood wage penalty in many developed societies; however, whether mothers face similar disadvantages in developing countries remains underexplored. This article argues that different intervening factors emerge when considering mothers’ labor compensation in developing contexts. Labor informality, a key characteristic of labor markets in developing countries, could play a significant role in s…
Tipping the Multiracial Color-Line: Racialized Preferences of Multiracial Online Daters
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
The data behind a distinct form of racism in online datingThe Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at ";digital-sexual racism,"; a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scale behavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds a…
Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis
Firm Size and Employment during the Pandemic
Previous studies have established that firm size is associated with a wage premium, but the wage premium has declined in recent decades. The authors examine the risk for unemployment by firm size during the initial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in the United States. Using both yearly and state-month variation, the authors find greater excess unemployment among workers in small enterprises than among those in larger firms. The gaps cannot b…
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time
Existing scholarship usually presents people's attitudes about guns as fixed and fully formed. Rarely are such attitudes examined as the outcome of social processes. As a result, while we know a great deal about what people think about guns, we know very little about the development of these beliefs. In this paper, we use a combination of surveys and life history interviews with a national sample of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 …
The Network Structure of Occupations: Fragmentation, Differentiation, and Contagion
Occupational structure is commonly viewed as either hierarchical or organized around stable classes. Yet, recent studies have proposed to describe occupational structure as a network, where the mobility of workers demarcates boundaries. Moving beyond boundary detection, this article develops occupational networks as a dynamic system in which between-occupation exchange is shaped by occupational similarities and occupational attributes are in turn…
The Rising Importance of Stock-Linked Assets in the Black–White Wealth Gap
Studies have examined the racial disparities in household characteristics, homeownership, and familial transfer as primary drivers of the Black–White wealth gap in the United States. This study assesses the importance of stock-linked assets in generating wealth inequality. As financial assets become a growing component of household portfolios, the Black–White wealth gap is increasingly associated with the racial disparity in stock-linked assets. …
Interracial Unions and Racial Assortative Mating in an Age of Growing Diversity, Shifting Intimate Relationships, and Emerging Technologies
While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changi…
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns
Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating
Economics (19 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Labour economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Wage (6 works) · Demography (5 works)