The experience of German reunification shows that commodity, capital and financial markets can be integrated smoothly during the integration process of the different economic systems. However, the integration of the labor market did not happen easily, and the creation of favorable institutional...

This study analyzes the current state of part-time jobs for women, focusing on decent part-time jobs, and draws policy implications from the perspective of the part-time work model. For the female part-time work model, we refer to the Dutch model and the Swedish model The former is mainly...

The proportion of part-time employment to total employment in Korea has increased significantly since the 2008 global economic crisis. In Korea, part-time employment spiked after the 1997 Asian financial crisis and remained steady only to spike again after the onset of the 2008 crisis....

Global Value Chains (GVCs) are known to have a skill-biased effect on the wage structure in developed countries. If the skill groups are divided into two – high-skilled vs low-skilled groups – then the direction of the skill-biased effect is clear in the existing literature. Many studies...