• Economic Analysis
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.65-97
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of exports on Korea's employment and to decompose driving factors of change in Korea's employment embodied in exports (EEX). This study uses a multi-regional input-output (MRIO) and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) for empirical analysis, and uses a dataset of World Input-Output Tables (WIOTs) and Socio-Economic Accounts (SEAs) from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD). The main findings of the empirical results are summarized as follows. First, Korea's EEX continues to increase and Korea's share of EEX compared to total employment shows an upward trend. However, Korea's employment inducement coefficient of value-added exports showed a downward trend during the 2000-2014 period. Second, final demand from three countries (China, the United States, and the Rest of the World (RoW)) has affected a significant portion of Korea's EEX. Finally, from the results of the SDA, the effect of changes in final demand was the most important driving factor for the increase in Korea's EEX. Based on the results of this empirical analysis, this study discusses useful policy implications that could increase domestic employment in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.53-71
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• 2023

This study aims to identify the contribution of factors to employment growth over the past 20 years (1996-2016) for seven metropolitan areas in Korea. For this purpose, we performed a multifactor partitioning (MFP) analysis based on the business survey data provided by Statistics Korea. The key findings of the analysis are as follows. First, over the long run, the region effect is dominant in metropolitan employment growth, followed by the industry mix effect. On the other hand, the dynamic MFP findings suggests that future regional employment disparities are likely to be explained by industry structure. Second, the gender mix and decent job mix effect do not significantly contribute to regional employment growth. However, the contributions of individual factors are not invalid, and it is possible to infer a pattern of declining employment for men-permanent workers and increasing employment for women-contingent workers. These results indicate the importance and necessity of employment policies that can promote structural transition in regional industries and qualitative growth accompanied by employment stability.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.825-848
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• 2022

This paper analyzed the factors for increasing energy consumption in the domestic manufacturing sector using the LMDI (Log mean division index) decomposition method for the period from 1999 to 2019. Among the LMDI decomposition analysis methods, both additive and multiplicative factor decomposition methods were used. in this analysis. According to the result of the analysis, the factor that increased energy consumption in the domestic manufacturing industry was the production effect, and the structure effect and intensity effect were found to be the factors that decreased energy consumption. In particular, the reduction of energy consumption due to the structure effect was greater than that of energy consumption effect due to the intensity effect. By period, it can be seen that energy consumption increased rapidly due to the production effect until 2011, but after that, the increase in energy consumption due to the production effect slowed down. On the other hand, after that, the energy reduction effect due to the structure effect and the intensity effect became prominent. In order to save energy in the manufacturing sector in the future, energy diagnosis and management through EMS (Energy management system) and FEMS (Factory energy management system) are more necessary. In addition, restructuring into a low-energy consumption industry seems more necessary.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.723-738
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• 2007

This paper draws some implications from Logarithmic Mean Weight Divisia Method (LMWDM) on the sources of $CO_2$ emission changes in the manufacturing sectors of Korea, UK, and USA. The sources of change in industrial $CO_2$ emission of a country, as manifested by production scale factor, structural factor, and technical factor, summarizes the forces behind the change in $CO_2$ emissions in each country's manufacturing sector. There are three observations. First one is that Korea's emission is increasing while USA and UK are experiencing reduction or stabilization of $CO_2$ emission in the manufacturing sector. Second implication is that the technical factor affecting $CO_2$ emission in Korea does not help much, or even hinder, the reduction of $CO_2$ emissions, comparing to USA and UK. Third one, which is the combined result of the first and the second one, is that Korea's increasing trend in aggregate $CO_2$ emission throughout the periods in consideration is mainly due to the failure in technical progress, or the deterioration in the structure of within subcategories, or both. The policy implications is clear. The obvious prescription is to launch a nation-wide policy drive which can revert these adverse trends.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.127-163
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• 1995

WTO체제의 출범 및 향후의 OECD 가입 등에 따라 외환자유화와 자본시장 개방이 현실로 다가서고 있다. 자본시장 개방과 외환자유화는 이제까지 우리 경제가 경험하지 못하였던 구조적 충격인 동시에 향후 거시경제 운용체계에 커다란 변화를 초래할 것으로 예상되고 있다. 특히 가장 직접적으로 영향받게 될 환율의 변동패턴이 과거와 크게 달라짐에 따라 수출입과 국제수지를 포함한 거시경제변수들에 대한 직 간접적인 파급효과가 유발될 것으로 판단된다. 본고에서는 자본시장 개방에 따른 우리나라 환율변동의 구조적 변화를 조명(照明) 하고 개방경제하에서의 환율정책에 대한 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 우선 우리나라와 선진국(先進國) 환율의 장기추세변동(長期趨勢變動)을 비교분석함으로써 자본시장 개방 이후의 구조적 변화 가능성을 검토하였으며, 장기추세분석에 사용된 "Beveridge-Nelson 분해(分解)" 결과는 우리나라와 선진국 모두의 경우 환율의 오버슈팅(overshooting) 현상(現象)이 지지(支持)되지 않는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 이러한 장기 추세분석과 함께 구조(構造)VAR모형(模型)의 추정을 통하여 경상요인(經常要因)과 실물요인(實物要因)의 변화에 따른 환율과 상대가격(相對價格)의 반응을 추정한 결과는 환율의 시장조절기능을 존중하는 방향으로 환율정책이 변화되어야 할 필요가 있음을 시사(示唆)하고 있다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.27-50
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• 2006

We estimate $CO_2$ emissions in Korea industry, 1990 and 2000 using a commodity- by-industry IO model ($CO_2$ hybrid IO mode]). Estimated $CO_2$ emissions in industries include both $CO_2$ emissions from direct and indirect consumption. The results show that total $CO_2$ emissions has increased by 51.6 million TC (Tonne of Carbon) from 64.4 million TC in 1990 to 115.5 million TC in 2000. By applying the structural decomposition analysis technique, we decompose change of $CO_2$ emissions in Korea industry between the period 1990~2000. In the decomposition, we figure out two contributing factors, changes in $CO_2$ coefficient and changes in final demand. The latter is further decomposed as growth effects and structural effects. We also estimated each factor's contribution to the changes in $CO_2$ emissions in industries between 1990~2000. The analysis can be used as a useful resource for policy makers in improving the effectiveness of $CO_2$ emissions mitigation policy.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.158-167
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that encouraged the industrial growth of Koran city gas industry during 1995-2009, by carrying out input-output structural decomposition analysis(IO-SDA) using Syrquin's model. The results show that the main factors which contributed to the growth of the Korean city gas industry are final domestic demand(48.4%) and technological change(38.6%). By examining the results for the three periods of 1995-2000, 2000-2005, and 2005-2009, the tendency of changes between the two main factors is drawn. In contrast to the drastic decreasing tendency of the final domestic demand's contribution to the growth, 84.5%, 18.9%, and 15.4%, respectively for each period, there is an increasing tendency for technological change as seen by the results of 7.4%, 70.0%, and 42.2%, respectively. These findings may be a result from the fact that the rate of gas supply in the residential sector has been saturated recently. They are also reflective of the energy consumption trend of industrial activities as there has been a shift in the approach for supplying energy, from the traditional approach which use fossil fuels to the newer approach which uses environmentally friendly energy sources. For the continued growth of the city gas industry, policymakers sould consider greater investment in the expansion of city gas supply infrastructure for industrial activities rather than for the residential sector.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.598-615
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• 2017

This paper compares the sources of the changes in the production of manufacturing industry between Korea and Japan during year 2000 ~year 2011 by I-O SDA. The results show that the first source of the increase in the production of Manufacturing industry in Korea is export, while in Japan the technological change. However, the contribution of technological change is relatively small in Korea and moreover decreasing. Meanwhile, the domestic final demand is the second source of the increase in the production of Korean manufacturing industry, but it was the first source of the decrease in the production of Japanese counterpart. On the other hand, the decrease in import substitution for both the intermediate and domestic final goods is significantly contributed to the decrease in the production of both Korean and Japanese manufacturing industry. Conclusively, these results confirm that the growth of Korean manufacturing industry has heavily depended on export. Then, considering the current global economic environment that is rapidly becoming more uncertain as well as volatile, the results imply that the heavy export dependence may become a key hurdle for the solid sustained growth of Korean manufacturing industry, so that policy ensuring more evenly balanced growth contribution from all growth sources is necessary. In particular, policy to promote technological change and import substitution is required with greater weight.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.183-213
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• 2006

본 연구의 목적은 공적분 검정과 예측오차 분산분해 방법을 이용하여 우리나라 주식시장에서 주가지수와 거시경제 변수들과의 계량적 관계를 파악하고 종합주가지수와 밀접한 관련성이 있는 변수를 사용하여 종합주가지수와 거시경제변수들 사이의 모형을 추정하는 것이다. Johansen 공적분 검증을 이용한 결과를 보면 종합주가지수와 7개의 거시경제변수들(총통화, 소비자물가지수, 금리, 산업생산지수, 원 달러 환율, 국제원유가격, 경상수지) 사이에 상당히 밀접한 연관성이 있으며, 이들 변수들 사이에 장기적 균형 관계가 존재하였다. 예측오차 분산분해 방법을 사용한 분석결과에서는 종합주가지수의 분산을 예측하는데 있어서 이들 거시경제변수들의 설명력이 매우 높게 나타났다. 또한 우리나라의 주식시장에서는 금리, 국제원유가격, 경상수지 등의 요인보다는 원 달러 환율, 소비자물가지수, 산업생산의 비중이 더 크다는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 우리나라의 자본시장에서는 1997년 말 외환위기를 전후로 하여 현저한 구조적 변화가 존재하였기 때문에 백터오차수정모형을 설정할 때에는 외환위기 이전기간과 이후기간으로 나누어서 분석하는 것이 더욱 타당함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.257-290
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• 2005

Korean energy use in industrial sector has increased more rapidly than other sectors during 1980~2000 periods. Relatively higher increases in industrial sector energy consumption raise questions whether government policy of rationalization of industrial energy use has been effective. In this study, we use 80-85-90 and 90-95-00 constant price input-output table to analyze increases in industrial energy use. Using an adjusted version of structural decomposition model introduced by Chen and Rose (1990), we decompose Changes of energy use into 17 elements. We classify entire industry sector into 32 sectors including four energy sectors (coal and coal products, refined petroleum, electricity and town gas). We then analyze changes of energy use by industrial level to check differences among industrial energy demand structures. Finally, we compare three industries, electronic product manufacturing, metal manufacturing and construction, that represent technology and capital intensive, energy and material intensive and labor and capital intensive industry. As results, we find that high energy using industries make the most effort to reduce energy use. Primary metal, petrochemical and mon-metal industries show improvements in elements such as energy and material productivity, energy and material imports, energy substitution and material substitutions towards energy saving. These results imply that although those industries are heavy users of energy, they put the best effort to reduce energy use relative to other industries. We find various patterns of change in industrial energy use at industrial level. To reduce energy use, electronic product manufacturing industry needs more effort to improve technological change element while construction industry needs more effort to improve material input structure element.