Public transport patronage has been continuously declining in major Korean cities as levels of car ownership rise. Public transport has lost its competitive edge to private cars because people tend to prefer more convenient modes as their income increases. A promising way to reverse this trend...

This paper explores the impact that advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have on the behaviour of transport users and their mode choice habits in Seoul. It discusses the stated preference survey conducted in Seoul and the analysis carried out using the discrete choice...

This paper explores the impact that advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have on the behaviour of transport users and their mode choice habits in Seoul. It discusses the stated preference survey conducted in Seoul and the analysis carried out using the discrete choice...

This paper investigates how effective safety education reduces workforce risks by using an establishment-level dataset in South Korea. We focus on identification and estimation of causal effects. Since provision of safety education depends on establishment’s decision, the main variable of...

We consider the impacts of a new information and communications technology, referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technology, on firm productivity by using a Korean dataset. We estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) of each firm using the control function approach for...

We use a representative panel dataset to estimate the upward mobility of education in South Korea. Generally, over 57.2% of individuals attain education level greater than or equivalent to their parents regarding their relative ranks. We also compare the upward mobility between senior and young...