The central theme of this thesis is the role of human capital as a major source of economic growth and reduced inequality of personal income distribution. This thesis develops a model of economic growth based upon human capital theory and the "capital-skill complementarity hypothesis". Using a...

A new gender wage gap decomposition methodology is introduced that does not suffer from the identification problem caused by unobserved non-discriminatory wage structure. The methodology is used to measure the relative size of Korean gender wage gaps from 1994 to 2000 across industries,...

A new gender wage gap decomposition methodology is introduced that does not suffer from the identification problem caused by unobserved non-discriminatory wage structure. The methodology is used to measure the relative size of Korean gender wage gaps from 1994 to 2000 across industries,...