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dc.contributor.authorKang, Byung-gooen
dc.contributor.authorYun, Myeong-Suen
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-04-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:52:44Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:52:44Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20081126399en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35511-
dc.description.abstractKorea is known not only for rapid economic growth but also relatively low wage inequality. It is one of the few countries in which wage inequality decreased during the 1980s, though in recent years wage inequality has increased. This paper studies what factors contributed to the changes in wage inequality during the last two decades. This paper implements a recently developed Oaxaca-type inequality decomposition method to decompose U shaped changes in inequality into characteristics (quantity), coefficients (price) and residuals effects at both overall and detailed levels. The results of decomposition analysis show that changes in the wage structure significantly contribute to the changes in wage inequality in Korea. The coefficients effect of human capital factors has played a major role not only in increasing wage inequality from mid-1990s, but also decreasing wage inequality in 1980s and early 1990s.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3780en
dc.subject.jelD30en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordDecomposition analysis of inequalityen
dc.subject.keywordearnings equationen
dc.subject.keywordcoefficients (price) effecten
dc.subject.keywordcharacteristics (quantity) effecten
dc.subject.keywordresiduals effecten
dc.subject.stwLohnstrukturen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Ungleichheiten
dc.subject.stwHumankapitalen
dc.subject.stwDekompositionsverfahrenen
dc.subject.stwSüdkoreaen
dc.titleChanges in Korean wage inequality, 1980-2005-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn584277229en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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