This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute's Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Preliminary steps to understanding employment and industrial relations in South Korea / Byoung-Hoon Lee -- 1. Viewing Korean employment and industrial relations / Young-Myon Lee and Bruce E. Kaufman -- 2. The historical development of employment and labor...