About

Wooseong Kim is a postdoctoral fellow in the New World of Work research group (led by Theo Bodin), part of the Unit of Occupational Medicine at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. His current research focuses on (1) how adverse life events shape individuals’ health and labour market outcomes, and how these effects differ between standard and non-standard employees in Sweden, and (2) how in-work poverty affects the mental and physical health of Swedish workers.

He holds a PhD in Sociological Demography from Stockholm University, where he remains affiliated as a researcher at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology. His doctoral thesis, Unrealized Potential: Overqualification and Its Consequences Among the Children of Immigrants Born in Sweden (2025), examines the labour market integration of the second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden.

He currently serves as a board member of the Swedish Demographic Association (Svensk Demografisk Förening, SDF) and as an associate editor of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research (NJMR). He also reviews for journals including Advances in Life Course Research, BMC Public Health, Demographic Research, European Sociological Review, Genus, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Social Forces.

Research

His research interests include the socioeconomic adaptation of immigrants and their descendants in high-income countries, social determinants of health, social inequalities, social stratification, and advanced quantitative methods. He has also worked on recent fertility developments in the Nordic countries, the influence of mental health on fertility, and the associations between health, socioeconomic status, and shared physical custody among Swedish parents.