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Rebalancing Growth in the Republic of Korea
Ha, Joonkyung - 2010
The current account surplus of the Republic of Korea (henceforth Korea) increased significantly in the immediate recovery period after the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis. Since then the surplus has gradually diminished, and from 2006 to 2008, the current account was close to being balanced....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141152
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A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010
Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age intervals. We have improved the accuracy of estimation by using information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622348
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710414
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Losers and Winners in Economic Growth
Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993
For 116 countries from 1965 to 1985, the lowest quintile had an average growth rate of real per capita GDP of -1.3%, whereas the highest quintile had an average of 4.8%. We isolate five influences that discriminate reasonably well between the slow and fast-growers: a conditional convergence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718787
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Asian Regionalism in the World Economy
Kawai, Masahiro (contributor); Lee, Jong-Wha (contributor);  … - Edward Elgar
The structure and policy architecture of the world economy, as it emerges from the historic challenges now underway, will be affected by the dramatic rise of Asian economies and deepening connections among them. This important book examines the rapid transformation of the Asian economy, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171023
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Rebalancing growth in the Republic of Korea
Ha, Joonkyung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Sumulong, Lea - 2010
The current account surplus of the Republic of Korea (henceforth Korea) increased significantly in the immediate recovery period after the 1997 - 1998 Asian financial crisis. Since then the surplus has gradually diminished, and from 2006 to 2008, the current account was close to being balanced....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983454
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Human capital and income inequality
Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - 2018
equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944194
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Human capital and income inequality
Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 23 (2018) 4, pp. 554-583
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Human capital and income inequality
Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - 2018
equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797411
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431771