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 …

magnitude of the sensitivity of pay to stock market performance is comparable to the U.S. and Japan. Perhaps even more … the nature of Chaebols in Korea and the current corporate governance reform efforts in Korea that are aimed mostly at …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea … improve student performance in East Asia. But other schooling policies such as school autonomy over salaries and regular …

cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …

from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. …Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia …

cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s … reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …