This paper evaluates the overall effects of a pronatal subsidy program, the Basic Subsidy Program (BSP), in Korea. As the Total Fertility Rate(TFR) declines as low as 1.08 in 2005, several pronatal programs are urgently enlarged and newly introduced. One such program is the BSP for families with...

This study examines the impact of female wages, unemployment, foreign remittances and globalization on female labor supply over the period from 1980 to 2010. We have applied the ARDL bounds testing to test whether cointegration exists between variables. Our results show that variables are...