This paper will analyze the recent changes in women’s occupation and wages in Korea, focusing on the trend of the gender wage gap between 2008 and 2015 and its determinants. Especially, the changes in the occupational profiles of young female college graduates will be highlighted. They will...

The experience of German reunification shows that commodity, capital and financial markets can be integrated smoothly during the integration process of the different economic systems. However, the integration of the labor market did not happen easily, and the creation of favorable institutional...

This study analyzes the current state of part-time jobs for women, focusing on decent part-time jobs, and draws policy implications from the perspective of the part-time work model. For the female part-time work model, we refer to the Dutch model and the Swedish model The former is mainly...

This paper aims to analyze the sequential evolution and success stories of Korean TVE (Technical and Vocational Education) policy in order to draw implications for developing Asian countries.We characterize the Korean economic development as an educationled or TVE-led model. In particular, we...

This paper aims to analyze the characteristics of the career paths of software engineers and draws relevant policy implications. Although the career path for software engineers is known to be very short, the software industry suffers from a shortage of highly qualified software engineers, who...

The proportion of part-time employment to total employment in Korea has increased significantly since the 2008 global economic crisis. In Korea, part-time employment spiked after the 1997 Asian financial crisis and remained steady only to spike again after the onset of the 2008 crisis....

The advancement of women in high-paying, professional jobs such as lawyers and medical practitioners that have long been preferred occupations was prominent between 2008 and 2015. But during that same period women entered scientific and technological fields, and software-related occupations in...

Global Value Chains (GVCs) are known to have a skill-biased effect on the wage structure in developed countries. If the skill groups are divided into two – high-skilled vs low-skilled groups – then the direction of the skill-biased effect is clear in the existing literature. Many studies...

Regulation regarding compensation for employee inventions can reduce disputes between employer and any employee inventor by making transparent the legal rights. Although many such patents do not recover their costs, some make immense profits for the company. Therefore, introduction of a system...

The economic growth based on the technology-leading model expands the demand for the high-quality human resources. On the technology frontier, the forecast of workforce demand as well as picking the winning businesses is not easy. It means that the role of the pre-emptive expansion of education...