Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35332 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3774
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector for the period 1993 to 2003. It appears that a large portion of rising pay inequality can be attributed to rising relative pay among the small-sized firms, outside the capital city area and in the ICT sectors which were affected by the economic structural reform since 1997. The findings support the hypothesis of an augmented Kuznets Curve, according to which certain developed countries are found on an upward-sloping addendum to the original formulation of Kuznets.
Subjects: 
Pay inequality
financial crisis
Kuznets Curve
economic growth
performance
JEL: 
C43
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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