English Abstract: The Korean economy experienced a slowdown in both productivity growth and exports in the 2010s. Here … we analyze the relationship between changes in exports and in the growth of total factor productivity (TFP). Our … exports and productivity. We find that the positive correlation was stronger during periods in which exports decreased. We …

English Abstract: This paper explores the role of human capital in explaining labor productivity growth in Korea … expenditures. This human capital growth explains about 30% of the labor productivity growth. The result also implies that the … downward trend in Korea's labor productivity growth since 2001 is mainly due to a decline in both capital deepening and TFP …

monetary integration on bilateral trade. For this purpose, we analyze with gravity model changes of the bilateral trade among … countries). We discovered that bilateral trade increased at a highest level among East Asian countries than the other two cases …

. While many studies on country technology competitiveness use the aggregate indices such as total factor productivity and … to see the effect of the product differentiation on labor productivity …

trade volumes of GDP. Finally, we also find that the ratio investments of GDP has a positive influence on the economic …

English Abstract: Labor productivity growth in Korea has been slowing down across all industries in the 2000s, which … has acted to lower national economic growth substantially. The productivity gap between Korea and advanced economies has … to adopt differentiated growth strategies that take account of productivity levels and industry characteristics. The …

contributions to total factor productivity growth for manufacturing, using the Korean plant-level manufacturing data for the period … the marginal productivity increase of each vintage of equipment over time. We find that the rate of embodied technological …