Associate Professor at Beijing Forestry University. She graduated from Renmin University of China, School of Labor and Human Resources (Ph.D., M.A.), and Shandong University, School of Management (B. A.) and has been a Visiting Scholar at the IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor (2010-11) and the University of Chicago (2019-20).

She is a Research Fellow at the China Center for the Economics of Human Development (CCEHD), Global Labor Organization (GLO), and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and an Assistant Researcher at the China Institute for Employment Research (CIER). She is also engaged in institutional scientific international networking supporting GLO Relations and Operations on management questions.

Professor Yumei Yang cares about employment and income distribution, human capital, human resource management, migration, and evidence-based policy making. She has published a large number of papers dealing with early child development, firm-specific human capital, gender age differences in Chinese informal employment, rural-to-urban migration, and other issues.