We study the welfare implications of a bilateral free trade agreement. The model is based on the recent trade literature that considers search and matching frictions in the labor market. We extend the model by incorporating country-level heterogeneity in terms of production technology,...

Most research on the effects of immigration focuses on the effects of immigrants as adding to the supply of labor. By contrast, this paper studies the effects of immigrants on local labor demand, due to the increase in consumer demand for local services created by immigrants. This effect can...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 성별 교육 기회의 불평등의 원인을 탐구하고 지속가능한 경제성장의 관점에서 성별 교육불평등이 갖는 기회비용을 실증적으로 추정하고자 한다. 먼저 Barro and Lee Educational Attainment Data를 근거로 성별...

Education is generally believed to be beneficial in fostering, independent of gender, higher labor productivity. Female education may, however, cause other socio-economic gains which are not captured by higher wage or better compensation package for the educated female worker in the labor market...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 국내 유치원 시장을 대상으로 유치원의 설립 유형이 유치원 교육의 수익률에 미치는 영향을 추정하였다. 한국아동패널조사에서 제공하는 인지 및 비인지능력 점수에 기반하여 도시 규모 및 유치원...