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Non-financial hurdles for human capital accumulation : landownership in Korea under Japanese rule
Jun, Bogang; Gim, Tae yu - 2014
This paper suggests that inequality in landownership is a non-financial hurdle for human capital accumulation. It is the first to present evidence that inequality in landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in the Korean colonial period. Using a fixed effects model,...
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North Korea : the last transition economy?
Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020
The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...
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Industrial development in Asia : trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia
Chang, Ha-joon; Zach, Kiryl - 2018
the last fifty years. This paper provides an outline of some of the most important trends of this development and analyses …, China, and India - to describe some of the strategies which Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913493
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Aid and development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam
Gray, Kevin J. - 2013
. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790673
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Immigrants from Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong in New Zealand in the mid-1990s: macro and micro perspectives
Lidgard, Jacqueline May (contributor) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001352583
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Post-socialist international migration : the case of China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The...
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Legal entitlement and bargaining power of marriage immigrants in Korea
Wie, Dainn; Lee, Hanol - 2015
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Immigration and natives' task specialization : evidence from Korea
Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan - 2022
the wage effects of immigration, its empirical literature is concentrated on the context of only a few countries. Using … immigration by pursuing jobs more intensive in communication tasks. This result explains how task specialization from immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197864
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Do Low-skilled Immigrants Improve Native Productivity but Worsen Local Amenities? Learning from the South Korean Experience
Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this study, we first evaluate the effect of a significant increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean … natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration policy and the pre …-existing networks of immigrants to construct an instrument for immigration across Korean municipalities, we find that locations …
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The changing pattern of textile trade in northeast Asia
Park, Young-il - 1988
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000124338