We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international trade integration is associated with higher labour shares …

We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use … decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …

, employment - through the Employment Permit System, the basis of Korea's system by which to introduce low-skilled immigrants …. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses reveal that the adjustment cost related to the introduction of foreign … workers was not substantial over the 2004-2005 period. However, a substitution effect exists between the employment of foreign …

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …

This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric … strong implication for generation policy in Korea as outlined in this study. -- semiparametric estimation ; smooth varying …

Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply … industries increase their level of ICT capital as well as digitalize and invest more in R&D activities and value added services …

substantially afterwards, without a corresponding negative trend in manufacturing productivity. These results are seemingly at odds … responsiveness to shocks, diminished significantly since 2000, coinciding with the slowdown in manufacturing productivity. Our …