This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …

on the nature of Chaebols in Korea and the current corporate governance reform efforts in Korea that are aimed mostly at …

Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply …

partial understanding of poverty in Korea and its possible causes, in particular, in form of poor family background or …

located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results show that a firm's industry characteristics, such as machinery and …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …

attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …