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Trade and Inequality in the Digital Economy (디지털경제에서의 국제무역과 소득격차)

  • Yoon, Sang-Chul
    • Journal of Labour Economics
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.29-54
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents a simple two-sector general equilibrium model of noncomparative advantage trade between structurally identical advanced economies. Attention has focused on the effects of trade in information technology (IT) goods and services on the wage inequality in the digital economy. The model confirms and illustrates that wage inequality in the digital economy reflect trade in IT goods and services between advanced economies. In particular, this paper shows that even though the relative price of skilled labor-intensive technology good is declined with trade in IT goods and services, the wage of skilled labor increases. The reason is that as Jorgenson (2001) has empirically found, the price elasticity of demand for the technology goods is elastic.

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Towards alleviation of the digital divide and poverty through land information

  • Liou, Jae-Ik
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.10 no.5 s.23
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    • pp.29-43
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    • 2002
  • Accesses to lands, houses, the Internet and other utilities are regarded as basic human needs to escape poverty and are required to recognize the relationships between the digital divide and socio-economical inequality. The digital divide might not be a single technical disparity, but stems from a complicated mixture of economic and socio-technical symptoms of inequality. There is growing awareness of scrutinizing causal mechanisms between the digital divide and poverty since combating poverty could be a primary step to mitigate the digital divide. In this paper, the Hexad model is proposed to explicate poverty interpretation by using 6 parameters as a major tool for partly assisting in poverty monitoring system in connection with land information. A solution model of the Internet is suggested to break the digital divide. It expounds a conceptual framework and new idea for poverty management to notify spatio-temporal locations of poor actors and geography of the digital divide when efforts of poverty eradication hinge on understandings of geographic location of digital disadvantaged groups through parcel-based land information.

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Analysis of the Relationship between House Price, Income Inequality and Macroeconomic Variables (주택가격, 소득불평등 및 거시경제변수간의 관계분석)

  • Kwon, Sun-Hee;Hyun, Seong-Min
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2019
  • This study analyzed the relationship between housing price, purchase price, Gini coefficient, interest rate, and the employment, considering that the change in housing price was an important factor influencing macroeconomic variables and income inequality. The panel VAR model was constructed considering the panel data, and the Granger causality, Impulse response and Variance dispersion analysis were performed. As a result, when compared to before and after the global financial crisis, it was shown that the rent price had an effect on income inequality, but in the following period, both the rent price and the selling price affected the income inequality. And that it has a large impact on inequality. In addition, the causality between income inequality and employment rate, interest rate, and tax rate was confirmed. Therefore, it is expected that it will be a desirable policy to mitigate income inequality considering the influence of policy variables for economic activation including government real estate policy.

A Contribution Analysis of the Increase in 1-2 Person Families on the Income Inequality and the Income Gap (1-2인 가구증가의 소득불평등도와 소득격차에 대한 기여도 분석)

  • Lim, Byung-In;Kim, Sung-Tai;Jung, Ji-Un
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2015
  • This paper examines trends of the income inequality index and the income quintile share ratios, using the Household Survey released by Statistics Korea. We discuss their respective effects on total income inequality and the income disparity, as a contribution concept defined in this paper for 1990-2014 periods. Main findings are as follows. First, the contribution of 2-person families to total inequality with the current income or the disposable income becomes bigger, and growth rates have been above 10% since 2003. Second, the contribution of 1-person families to income inequality is greater than that of 2-person families. Policy implication is such that the government had better investigate the 1 or 2 person families in-depth to set up the policy measures for weakening the income inequality.

The Effects of Medical Expenditure on Income Inequality in Elderly and Non-Elderly Households by Income Class (소득계층별 노인과 비 노인가구의 의료비 지출이 소득불평등에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Yong-Jae
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to identify the inequalities and characteristics of health care expenditure of the elderly and non-elderly households by income level. As a result, health care expenditure of elderly households was statistically significantly higher than that of non-elderly households. As a result of calculating the concentration index of health care expenditure by income level, inequality was higher in order of non-elderly households, elderly households, and total households. In order to confirm the effect of health expenditure on household income inequality, we calculated the concentration index of income excluding total health care expenditure from total income. As a result, inequality was higher in order of elderly households, whole households, and non-elderly households. There was not much difference in inequality of health care expenditure among elderly households and non-elderly households. And, the health care expenditure of elderly households was much higher than that of non-elderly households. Also, inequality of health care expenditure by income group was serious. There should be no cases where the medical care support policy for elderly households can not use necessary medical services.

Intelligent Digital Controller Using Digital Redesign

  • Joo, Young-Hoon
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.187-193
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, a systematic design method of the intelligent PAM fuzzy controller for nonlinear systems using the efficient tools-Linear Matrix Inequality and the intelligent digital redesign is proposed. In order to digitally control the nonlinear systems, the TS fuzzy model is used for fuzzy modeling of the given nonlinear system. The convex representation technique also can be utilized for obtaining TS fuzzy models. First, the analog fuzzy-model-based controller is designed such that the closed-loop system is globally asymptotically stable in the sense of Lyapunov stability criterion. The simulation results strongly convince us that the proposed method has great potential in the application to the industry.

New Sufficient Conditions to Intelligent Digital Redesign for the Improvement of State-Matching Performance (상태-정합 성능 향상을 위한 지능형 디지털 재설계에 관한 새로운 충분조건들)

  • Kim, Do-Wan;Joo, Young-Hoon;Park, Jin-Bae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.293-296
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents new sufficient conditions to an intelligent digital redesign (IDR). The purpose of the IDR is to effectively convert an existing continuous-time fuzzy controller to an equivalent sampled-data fuzzy controller in the sense of the state-matching. The state-matching error between the closed-loop trajectories is carefully analyzed using the integral quadratic functional approach. The problem of designing the sampled-data fuzzy controller to minimize the state-matching error as well as to guarantee the stability is formulated and solved as the convex optimization problem with linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints.

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A Study on the Development of Information Inequality Measurement Indicator Optimized for the Library (도서관에 적용가능한 정보불평등 측정지표 개발 연구)

  • Noh, Younghee;Chang, Rosa
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.53-81
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    • 2019
  • The 3rd Library Comprehensive Development Plan (2019-2023) of the Committee on Library and Information Policy under IFLA-UN 2030 Agenda emphasize the role of libraries in practicing social inclusion. At home and abroad, this is shedding new light on libraries as the public service institutions aimed at resolving information inequality. This study thus developed the information inequality measurement indicator optimized for libraries. For this purpose, FGI and Delphi technique were implemented as the verification stage of the expert group. As a result, the final indicators were derived in three evaluation areas, twelve evaluation items, and 30 evaluation indicators. Specifically, first, 3 evaluation items and 8 evaluation indicators were derived in the access evaluation area; second, 5 evaluation items and 12 evaluation indicators were derived in the competency evaluation area; and third, 4 evaluation items and 10 evaluation indicators were derived in the utilization evaluation area. This study is considered to be of great significance in that the information inequality measurement indicators optimized for libraries were developed, the first of its kind.

Internet Based Network Control using Fuzzy Modeling

  • Lee, Jong-Bae;Park, Chang-Woo;Sung, Ha-Gyeong;Lim, Joon-Hong
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1162-1167
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the design methodology of digital fuzzy controller(DFC) for the systems with time-delay. We propose the fuzzy feedback controller whose output is delayed with unit sampling period and predicted. The analysis and the design problem considering time-delay become easy because the proposed controller is syncronized with the sampling time. The stabilization problem of the digital fuzzy system with time-delay is solved by linear matrix inequality(LMI) theory. Convex optimization techniques are utilized to solve the stable feedback gains and a common Lyapunov function for designed fuzzy control system. To show the effectiveness the proposed control scheme, the network control example is presented.

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An Efficient Vector Quantization Codebook generation using a Triangle Inequality (삼각 부등식을 이용한 빠른 벡터 양자화 코드북 생성)

  • Lee, Hyun-Jin
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.309-315
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    • 2012
  • Active data are the input data which are changed its membership as Vector Quantization codebook generation algorithm is processed. In the process of VQ codebook generation algorithm performed, the actual active data out of the entire input data will be less presented as the process is performed. Therefore, if we can accurately find the active data and only if we are going to do VQ codebook generation on the active data, then we can significantly reduce the overall generation time. In this paper, we presented the triangle inequality based algorithm to select the active data. Experimental results show that our algorithm is superior to other methods in terms of the VQ codebook generation time.