slave market in Korea. The aim of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the Korean slave market by examining the … debates in economic history on the efficiency of the US slave market. This question of efficiency has not been analyzed on the … behavior of slave prices during the period 1689-1893. In order to do so, we collected long-run series of slave prices from …

) (2002); India (2004); Japan (2008); Republic of Korea (2006); the Russian Federation (2004, 2007, and 2010); and Taipei …. Japan; Taipei,China; and Republic of Korea have very low degrees of overall income inequality by world standards, while … poor households in the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China, due to differential returns to household endowments, suggesting …

Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes …

five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la … explores the agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Choson Korea) and their path …

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 …

sources at the household level has on the changes in inequality indexes in Korea between 1988 and 2002. Based on the Urban …

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 …