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The Economic Freedom of Asian Tigers - an Essay on Controversy

Paldam, Martin - 2002

The "tigers" are a group of 4-5 east Asian countries, which have joined the rich western countries after a period of 30-40 years of "miraculous" growth. Large controversies surround the attempt to explain how they did it. The paper briefly surveys the discussion. The economic freedom index...

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Firm Survival and Financial Development : Evidence from a Panel of Emerging Asian Economies

Tsoukas, Serafeim - 2010

Using a panel of five Asian economies - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - over the period 1995 …-2007 we analyze the links between firm survival and financial development. We find that traditionally used measures of … financial development play an important role in influencing firm survival. When stock markets become larger or more liquid firms …

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Introduction: finance, development and the state in East Asia

Rethel, Lena; Thurbon, Elizabeth - In: New political economy 25 (2020) 3, pp. 315-319

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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that "who gets what" is significantly dependent upon "who earns how much." However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...

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The betrayed generation? : intra-household transfers and retirement behavior in South Korea

Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-hyop; Halliday, Timothy - 2018

We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement behavior in Korea. We provide evidence that the cost of raising sons is higher than it is for daughters in Korea. Thus, in the absence of sufficient transfers from adult sons to...

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International marriage for homogeneity? : evidence from marriage migration in South Korea

Cho, Seo-Young - 2014

This paper investigates empirically whether cultural, racial, and linguistic similarities increase marriage migration. By using marriage migration data from South Korea, I find that the similarities between an origin country and South Korea pull more marriage migration, but the positive effects...

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Chinese and South Korean Views on Accepting Bribes : An Empirical Study

McGee, Robert W. - 2017

One might think that bribery is always unethical. Studies by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development …

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Effect of Consulting on Microcredit Repayment in Korea

Oh, Yoonhae - 2016

This study examines the effect of a one-on-one outsourced pre-lending consulting service on the repayment behavior of microcredit borrowers in Korea with administrative data from the Smile Microcredit Bank. A random change in the cut-off loan amount for mandatory consulting is utilized as an...

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Employment Status, Quality of Matching, and Retirement in Korea : Evidence from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging

Lee, Chulhee; Lee, Jinkook - 2011

This paper explores how and why the probability of retirement differs between self-employed and wage-and-salary workers. It finds self-employed workers are less likely to retire than wage-and-salary ones, and that differences in retirement incomes, health, productivity, job characteristics, and...

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Tax Evasion, Tax Misery and Ethics : Comparative Studies of Korea, Japan and China

McGee, Robert W. - 2007

The ethics of tax evasion has been discussed sporadically in the theological and philosophical literature for at least 500 years. Martin Crowe wrote a doctoral thesis that reviewed much of that literature in 1944. The debate revolved around about 15 issues. Over the centuries, three main views...

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