South Korea has emerged as a major destination for labor migration in the Asia-Pacific region in the last two decades. In 1991, the total number of foreign-born population in Korea was 167,000. At the end of 2011, the number reached 1.4 million while 705,000 of them are estimated to participate...

Bilateral labor flows into Korea are highly uneven in their distribution among countries, so improvement with major labor cooperation partners can have disproportionate effects on overall foreign labor outcomes. In addition, this will also help diversify the labor flows from the origin...

Any discussion on Southeast Asia’s transition to high-income status needs to put more emphasis on the role of indigenous private firms, be they large corporations or SMEs. It is often the case that our knowledge and understanding with respect to private firms within the middle-income challenge...