A long-standing empirical literature has been concerned with determining whether voters vote 'prospectively' or 'retrospectively.' Despite this interest, little is known about the consequences of one voting regime versus another. This study addresses this deficiency. The authors find that voter...

1. Introduction / Richard B. Freeman and Sunwoong Kim -- 2. Historical background before and after the financial crisis / Jae-Ho Keum -- 3. Tertiarization of employment / Jai-Joon Hur -- 4. Female employment structure and policy agenda in Korea / Hyewon Kim -- 5. Income polarization and rising...

This article starts with an observation that the employment of former regulatory officers by a regulated firm might be an integral part of the corruption-facilitating mechanism (CFM). The article hypothesizes that such employment constitutes the deferred payment for the corruption previously...

We verify the glass ceiling effect through separate quantile regression and the wage difference decomposition methods. We also study the gender wage gap after dividing the labor market into core and peripheral sectors considering structural labor market characteristics, such as firm size,...