Recently, interest in social services has been rapidly increasing in South Korea because of an aging population, nuclear families, an increase in female participation in the workforce, and other demographic and social structural changes. Demands for social services have been rising rapidly as a...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of globalization (export in particular) on firms’ productivity distribution and then to suggest policy implication to improve government’s export promotion policies. We consider the two long-standing issues in the globalization and...