Korea is well known for its long working hours amongst employees, being always no. 1 or 2 in OECD ranking for average annual hours. Researchers find that the long working hours have detrimental effects on productivity and employees' material well-being such as work-related injuries and illness....

Subjective well-being has attracted sharply increasing attention among researchers and policy makers in recent years. The public also pays a lot of attention to it, evidenced by the heavy use of the word "happiness" in media. Some researchers argue that subjective well-being measures should...

Empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being increased rapidly in recent decades. Among many determinants, employment is one of the most important (Clark and Oswald 1994; Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998). Many find that working is significantly associated with subjective well-being...

We investigate whether air pollution affects labor supply in South Korea. To address endogeneity in the level of local air pollution, we utilize plausibly exogenous changes in wind directions as instruments. This choice is based on the observation that air pollution in South Korea is affected by...