Hyowook Chiang is an Economist in Welch Consulting’s Los Angeles office. Since joining Welch, Dr. Chiang has assisted with gender, race, and age discrimination cases as well as wage and hour cases.

Dr. Chiang received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Welch Consulting, he worked as an Economist at the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) program at the U.S. Census Bureau where he conducted research on job and worker flows and firm productivity. He was an Analyst at the Bank of Korea where he worked on international financial institutions and domestic money markets. Dr. Chiang taught economic statistics and intermediate macroeconomics at the University of Maryland. His research, “The Effect of HRM Practices and R&D Investment on Worker Productivity” (co-authored), is published in "The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches” (2008).

SELECTED CASEWORK

Consultant, Discrimination: Class action claims of gender discrimination in the promotion and pay practices at a large nationwide retail company. Constructed employment history data, performed statistical analyses of pay and promotion for non-exempt and exempt employees by gender, and performed critique of opposing expert report.

Consultant, Audit: Annual audits on performance evaluations of the management level employees at a large nationwide retail company. Examined data for rating differences by gender and race.

Consultant, Audit: Audit on compensation of the high-level executive management at a large nationwide retail company. Performed statistical analyses of compensation by gender and race.

Consultant, Discrimination: Class action allegations of gender discrimination in a range of business practices at a large software company. Performed statistical analyses of pay and promotions by gender.

Consultant, Discrimination: Class action claims of gender discrimination in total compensation at large investment banks. Performed statistical analyses of compensation by gender.

Consultant, Discrimination: Class action allegations of age discrimination in layoffs at a large retail company. Performed statistical analyses of layoffs by age.

Expert, Wage & Hours: Class action claims of underpayment of overtime under FLSA involving a fire department. Analyzed time records and calculated the underpayment and overpayment of overtime. Prepared an expert report.

Consultant, Wage & Hours: Class action claims of unpaid overtime for a class of employees at a large firm in the financial services industry. Estimated potential overtime hours and damages under various assumptions and prepared damage estimates for use in settlement negotiations.