Labor regulations designed to protect workers, promote workplace equality, and improve working conditions achieve social objectives and affect international competitiveness. Considering these dual outcomes has taken on added urgency as Asian economies adjust to an increase in global...

Using a rich microdata set from 1971 to 1992 that is highly suitable for performing decompositions, the author explains the trends in South Korea's gender earning differential. She shows that despite rapid economic growth, South Korea's gender earnings differential for all education groups...