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The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea

Chae, Seyoung - 2017

This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...

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Cross-Class Nuptiality Patterns in Traditional Korea : Statistical Analysis of the Tansong Household Registers for 1678

Peterson, Mark A.1; Phillips, Kerk - 2004

This paper presents preliminary results of statistical analysis of the Tansong County household registers for 1678. We focus on identifying the social class of county residents and on identifying marriages. We use a multivariate LOGIT model to estimate probabilities of marriage, both within and...

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Comfort Women : The North Korean Connection

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Arima, Tetsuo - 2022

prostitutes (we limit this article to women recruited from Korea and Japan) through variations on the standard indenture contracts … that the licensed brothels had used in Korea and Japan. Some women took the jobs because they were tricked by fraudulent … he claimed to have led a posse of soldiers to Korea and conscripted women at bayonet-point. Soon, several women sued the …

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Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea

McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013

Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882 … Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009) in the case of the Republic of Korea. Mainline Protestant missions — Presbyterian … and Methodist — promoted the Social Gospel and were the largest in the Republic of Korea implementing successful …

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Were Korean Girls Enslaved or Indentured into Military Brothels During Wwii?

Cha, Myung Soo - 2022

This paper empirically evaluates the two opposite representations of the pre-1945 Korean comfort women. Far exceeding the estimate advocated by contract view, the scale of mobilization as estimated using demographic information falls within the range proposed by enslavement view. Indicating one...

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Academic Big Falsehood - 'Enslaved Koreans : Comfort Women'

Hosoya, Kiyoshi - 2022

Ramseyer Paper gave the sex-slave theory believers a considerable shock but did not activate the arguments. The paper demonstrates the sustainability of the comfort women system with contracts for sex, which reinforces the prostitute theory and indirectly denies the slave theory. Rebuttals...

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Jesus Speaks Korean : Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea

Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021

In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in … its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which …

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Voluntary quits: do works councils matter? : an analysis of the reform of the German Works Constitution Act 2001

Adam, Julian B. - 2018

Most of the literature on the effects of German works councils does not deal with the issue of potential endogeneity of works council existence. Exploiting exogenous variation in works council authority stemming from a 2001 reform of the German Works Constitution Act, I apply a regression...

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The institutional and economic limits to bargaining decentralization in Italy

D'Amuri, Francesco; Giorgiantonio, Cristina - 2015

Italy is not immune from the long term process towards greater bargaining decentralization under way in Western Europe. The article surveys the main actions, either defined by social partners or by government intervention, which have attempted to encourage this process in recent years, without...

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Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? A Survey of the Literature

Lawson, Nicholas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010

It would be hard, even today, to deny that labour unions are important economic institutions, and it is this importance that makes their consequences for efficiency so substantial. Interest in the economic analysis of unions was revived in the early 1980s, in large part by a paper by Ian...

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