Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Accumulating human capital for sustainable development -- 2. Education bubble and widening inequality -- 3. Making education diversification reform happen -- 4. Turning around failing vocational high schools -- 5. Deteriorating skills and weak life-long...

This paper estimates Korea's age-skill profiles in comparison with other OECD countries such as Japan, Germany, USA, UK and Finland, using the PIAAC data, the recent skill competence survey of adult workers from OECD countries. According to this survey, Korean worker's skill level is slightly...

This paper proposes a new conceptual framework of “education bubble” in analyzing the human capital investment and formation. We apply this concept to the Korean experience. Sixty years ago Korea was destitute not only of income but also of all sorts of education, but now it is one of the...

During the period from 2008 to 2013, Korea pushed ahead with education diversification reforms to overcome the education bubble which immensely increased private tutoring expenditure and produced college graduates receiving lower wages than high school graduates. Private tutoring expenditure...

We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Stock Option Plans (SOPs) and Team Incentive Plans (TIPs). In do doing, we...