Regulations on the use of non-regular workers can encourage the conversion to regular workers and reduce firms' labor use. They can also increase the use of non-regular employment types that are not subject to the law. An analysis on the impact of the non-regular employment protection law (2007)...

This paper examines whether imposing minimum wage alters the characteristics of new businesses. Applying a difference-in-differences framework to repeated cross-sectional data of new plants, we explore the impact of minimum wage introduction on characteristics of new plants in South Korea. We...

In this paper, we examine the impact of the labor regulation on firm's employment. South Korea's labor reform in 2007 restricted the duration of the specific types of temporary contract — fixed term and dispatched contract — to maximum two years and required those temporary contracts to be...