This paper examines the effects of sorting and mixing on academic performance of high school students in South Korea. The Korean government has vigorously promoted mixing for more than three decades, replacing competitive entrance examinations at individual schools by a lottery-based enrollment...

Strong employment protection for regular employment is believed to be a major contributing factor to the gradual decrease in the effectiveness of the human resources allocation mechanism in the Korean labor market.ｏ An increase in productivity does not lead to job creation but increases the...

Bourguignon, Goh, and Kim present an original method to study individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional data. Because panel data of individuals are seldom available in developing countries, it is difficult to study individual earning dynamics and related issues such as the...