• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.25-46
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• 2010

The outstanding performance of some nations in Central and Northern Europe such as Denmark and the Netherlands in the labor market is much indebted to their policy to help labor flexicurity. In this study, the possibility of replicating the Dutch or Danish performance in the labor market is explored in case of adopting such policy in the 22 OECD countries. If implementing the flexicurity policy in the 22 member countries of the OECD leads to strong performance in the labor market, this policy can be globally shared as universal labor policy to provide a win-win situation among the labor, management and the authorities on the matter, paving the way for replacing the Anglo-Saxon policy characterized by high flexibility and low security, or the European alternative with a lower level of flexibility and a higher level of security. According to findings from our research, flexicurity policy can not produce any tangible accomplishments in the labor market by only itself. Therefore, we may safely reach the conclusion that flexicurity policy has a limited positive influence on the labor market of some northern or central European countries. Given the striking difference in inherent conditions between such European countries and OECD countries, it is not sensible for OECD nations to adopt labor policy in the direction of flexicurity.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.215-236
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• 1995

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.3-74
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• 1997

우리나라의 과거 노사관계 개혁을 평가하고 향후 노사관계의 진로를 모색하기 위해서는 우리나라 노동시장기능(勞動市場機能)에 대한 정확한 인식이 필요하다. 노사관계에 있어서 제도개혁(制度改革)과 시장기능(市場機能)은 밀접히 연관되어 잇다. 본고에서는 우리나라에서 1987년과 1997년의 두 차례에 걸쳐 이루어진 노사관계 개혁을 '노동시장(勞動市場)의 성과(成果)(labor market performance)'를 분석함으로써 평가하고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는, (1)우리나라 노동시장에서는 상품시장의 경쟁이 제한되어 있는 대기업부문을 제외하고는 시장의 가격기능(價格機能)이 기본적으로는 작동하고 있으며, (2)우리 노동시장의 경직화(硬直化)가 수급상황(需給狀況)의 변화에 따라 진행되고 있는바 시장기능(市場機能)을 보다 강화하기 위한 제도개혁(制度改革)이 요구되고 있고, (3)노사관계에 대한 시장규율(市場規律)(market discipline)을 강화하기 위해 상품시장에서의 경쟁 촉진, 공공부문의 개혁, 노동정책 틀의 변화 등이 요구된다는 결론(結論)에 도달하였다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2003

Many students accumulate work experience while they attend college. Using data from Korean Youth Panel, I investigate the effects of in-school work experience on school-to-work process. Work during college contributes to take first job quickly after school, but has no significant effect on wage level of first job. These results show that in-school work experience might help job search but not provide skills and knowledge. These findings suggest that it is necessary to link the youth internship programme to in-school learning in collaboration with school.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.167-181
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• 2013

The cross-border flow of workers in EU having the freedom of labor mobility and residence plays a role in the border labor markets as a structural factor of regulation. The regulation role of the cross-border flow of workers on the Grand R$\acute{e}$gion, which is the border among the France-Belgium-Luxemburg-Germany, is as follows. First, the cross-border flow of workers regulates the regional surplus and lack of labor in quantity and quality. Second, the border labor markets are regulated by the regionally segmented supply and demand of labor and are modulated by the flexible employment like a part-time and temporary employment. Third, the residence of the cross-border workers concentrates on the adjacent regions to the border. And the atypical cross-border workers, who have their residence in the neighboring country but works in the existing country, are rising rapidly.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.1-27
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• 2005

This study intends to analyze outcomes in labor market of students who graduated from provincial colleges. And For this aim, this study used 'Youth Panel Data' (2001, 2002) of HRD Korea Work Information Center. The reference groups are students who graduated from capital region colleges. The main results of this study are as follows. Students who graduated from provincial colleges have difficulty in acquiring job information than capital region college graduates. And students who graduated from provincial colleges get first job in smaller firm than capital region college graduates. The monthly wage level of students who graduated from provincial colleges is less than that of capital region college graduates. And the outcomes in labor market of students who graduated from Chungcheong region colleges are better than those of students who graduated from Yeongnam region and Honam region colleges. As results of this study show, there are differences between provincial college graduates and capital region college graduates. And there are differences between Chungcheong region college graduates and another region (namely, Yeongnam region and Honam region) college graduates.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.18 no.3_4
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• pp.183-238
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 우리나라 기업집단이 갖는 현황과 특징을 여러 각도에서 살펴보았으며, 기업집단을 둘러싼 논쟁 중 중요한 쟁점인 기업집단의 생산구조 및 다변화가 기업집단의 성과에 미치는 영향에 대해 실증적인 분석을 시도하였다. 30대기업집단이 광공업부문에서 차지하는 비중은 그동안 변화가 있었지만 최근 들어 조금 높아지고 있으며, 상위기업집단과 하위기업집단간의 격차도 확대되고 있어 경제력집중 문제가 소수의 상위기업집단의 문제로 압축되는 경향이 나타나고 있다. 30대기업집단 가운데서도 상위집단은 산업규모가 크고 성장속도가 빠른 산업에 중점적으로 진출해 있는 반면, 중 하위집단은 산업규모는 크지만, 성장이 상대적으로 정체되어 있는 부문에서 높은 비중을 차지하고 있다. 30대기업집단은 다양한 산업 시장에 진출해 있어 다변화가 크게 진전되어 있으며, 개별 상품시장에서도 높은 시장지위를 차지하고 있다. 규모가 큰 시장일수록 기업집단의 참여가 많으며, 규모가 작은 시장에서는 참여 기업집단이 독점적 위치를, 규모가 큰 시장에서는 시장을 분점하고 있는 경향이 있다. 실증분석에 의하면 기업 및 기업집단의 성과에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것은 노동장비율, 노동의 질 등 생산측면의 요인이며, 시장력 및 시장구조, 다변화 등이 기업집단의 성과에 어떤 영향을 미치는지는 판단하기 어렵다. 기업집단의 규모와 기업집단의 성과간에는 특별한 관계가 성립하고 있지 않지만, 개별기업 수준에서는 기업규모가 클수록 성과가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 기업의 대형화는 촉진시키되 기업집단 계열기업간의 연결관계를 단절하고자 하는 현재의 경제력집중 대책방향이 적절하다는 점을 시사한다. 기업공개는 기업집단의 소유분산에 기여하는 동시에, 기업의 규모확대를 촉진하는 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났는데, 이로부터 기업공개의 촉진이 경제력집중 대책의 유용한 수단일 수 있다는 결론을 도출할 수 있다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.35-86
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• 2020

We estimate the effects of marriage on women's labor market outcomes and subject well-being. To resolve the endogeneity problem of marital status and timing of marriage, we use the difference-in-differences event study method which compares the trends of the outcome before and after the event between treatment and control groups. For robustness, we use four different control groups. The results show that the probability of working drops significantly by about 10%p in the first year of marriage and the effect becomes as large as 46%p by the 5th year of marriage. Also monthly earnings decrease substantially. We find that marriage increases subjective well-being, while the effect is not persistent.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.41-56
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• 2016

This study investigates the employment and spatial mismatch as a significant acting factor of deepening urban poverty and analyses the placeness of regional labor market that the more efficient place-based labor market intervention needs to take into account. The change of unemployment rate as a regional labor market outcome in metropolitan cities is determined by the dynamic interaction between disequilibrium of labor supply and demand and employment mismatch according to various labor market conditions and its process is certainly differentiated across the metropolitan regional labor markets. In addition, it is analyzed that during the employment suburbanization the spatial mismatch puts differentiated impacts on different labor groups through human capital requirements and industry-selective job opportunities. As a result, because this whole process works with its unique process within individual regional labor markets, in order to link between urban poverty and employment mismatch and to promote problem-solving labor market intervention, we need to develop place-based policy based on the placeness of regional labor marekt.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.75-99
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• 2014

This study analyzes the initial effect of meister high school policy on labor market by DID based on the fact that most of the meister high schools that had its first graduates in 2013 were not newly established but assigned by government. We estimated employment and real hourly wages as quantitative measures and intent to remain in labor market as qualitative one. The results shows that, the meister high school policy increased the employment rate but didn't do real hourly wages and intent to remain. Therefore, meister high school policy can be assessed to be successful in short-term only in quantitative aspects. The study has its contribution as the first study of estimating the net effect of the policy.