The Affirmative Action Act was introduced in South Korea in 2006 to increase female employment and correct discriminatory hiring practices. Using the combined data sets of survey and the Act's implementation plan, this paper provides logit estimation results to examine empirically how political...

This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the gender earnings gap in the public and private sectors by comparing the cases in Korea with those in the US. Using comparable data sets by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the US and the Korean Income Panel Study for Korea, this study...

Since the financial crisis in 1998, many Korean corporations with low profitability and excessive liabilities cut operating costs. They had to deal with exorbitant wage increases that outpaced productivity and were generated by the traditional seniority-based wage system. The empirical analysis...

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...