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Kim, Jinyoung - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2010

This paper develops a dynamic model of the decisions regarding the quantity and quality of children, predicated on two premises: (1) the quality of children is uncertain when parents make a human capital investment decision, and (2) the quality distributions of two children of a woman are less...

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Catching-up and Falling-behind in Economic Development: A Human Capital Approach

Kim, Jinyoung - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2007

This paper proposes an endogenous growth model where human capital is the engine of growth and can be transferred across countries via costly foreign education. Importing advanced knowledge by students abroad can improve a developing country¡¯s chance of catching up with a developed host...

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THE EVOLUTION OF INCOME AND FERTILITY INEQUALITIES OVER THE COURSE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A HUMAN CAPITAL PERSPECTIVE

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2007

implications concerning the dynamic behavior of inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three income inequality … measures -- family-income inequality, income-group inequality, and the Gini coefficient. In this context, we also reexamine the … “Kuznets hypothesis?concerning the relation between income growth and inequality. …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Country-Specific Human Capital

Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Jungsoo - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2007

Workers who are educated abroad acquire human capital specific to the country of foreign study (for example, language capital and country-specific knowledge on firm organization and on social system) which makes them more productive than domestically educated workers when both types of workers...

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Social Security and Demographic Trends: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 1, pp. 55-77

The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems isn't just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...

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Knowledge creation, human capital investment and economic growth

Kim, Jinyoung - 1994

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Economic analysis of foreign education and students abroad

Kim, Jinyoung - In: Journal of development economics 56 (1998) 2, pp. 337-365

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A model of gender inequality and economic growth

Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016

This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women … economies, and numerous policy experiments are conducted to investigate how various aspects of gender inequality are related to … inequality is completely removed, aggregate income will be about 6.6% and 14.5% higher than the benchmark economy after one and …

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Impact of gender inequality on the Republic of Korea's long-term economic growth : an application of the theoretical model of gender inequality and economic growth

Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016

This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth …

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The impact of gender equality policies on economic growth

Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016

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