Beyond Flexibility Roadmaps for Korean Labor Policy

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Richard B. Freeman/Sunwoong Kim)
• Chapter 2. Historical Background - Before and After the Financial Crisis - (Jaeho Keum)
• 1.Labor Market Conditions and Trends
• 2.Wages and Working Hours
• 3.Challenges in the Labor Market
• Chapter 3. The Challenge of Rapid Ageing and Low Fertility in Korea (Sunwoong Kim)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Challenges Ahead
• 3.Socio-economic Iissues Related to Rapid Aging
• 4.Agenda for Policy Intervention
• 5.Summary
• Chapter 4. Inequality, Polarization, and Social Unrest (Donggyun Shin)
• 1.Background
• 2.Conceptual and Measurement Issues
• 3.Evolution of the Income Distribution: Rising Inequality or Bipolarization
• 4.Characteristics of Bipolarization of the Income Distribution
• 5.Economic and Social Consequences of Bipolarization
• 6. Summary and Policy Implications
• Chapter 5. Assessing Dualism and Institutional Insecurity in the Korean Labor Market (Joonmo Cho)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Flexibility and Dualism in Korean Labor Market
• 3.Dualistic Recovery from the 1998 Financial Crisis
• 4.Institutional Insecurity in Korean Labor Market
• 5.Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Labor Supply and Quantitative Disequilibrium : Focus on Female Employment (Hye-Won Kim)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Female Employment Structure
• 3.Wage Gap between Genders
• 4.Changes in the Female Labor Supply
• 5.Conclusion: Prospects of Female Employment Policy in Korea
• Chapter 7. Qualitative Disequilibrium in the Labor Market and Policy Tasks (Jooseop Kim)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Job Changes and Worker Shortage by Occupation
• 3.Overeducation: Status and Impact on the Labor Market
• 4.Conclusion and Policy Implications
• Chapter 8. Is Korean Manufacturing Industry Still the Source of Job Creation? (Sung Teak Kim)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Challenges in the Manufacturing Industry
• 3.Current Status of the Manufacturing Industry and Its Employment
• 4.Conclusion
• Chapter 9. Will Tertiarization Create Better Jobs? (Jai-Joon Hur)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Tertiarization of Employment
• 3.Trends of Tertiarization in Production
• 4.Characteristics of Tertiarization in Korea
• 5.Summary and Policy Implications
• Chapter 10. Employment and Earnings in the Self-employment Sector (Jaewoo Ryoo)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Existing Literature
• 3.Characteristics of Self-employment
• 4.Income Opportunity and Selection into the Self-employment Sector
• 5.Conclusion
• Chapter 11. Non-standard Employment (Ki Seong Park)
• 1.Introduction
• 2.Definition and Scale of Non-standard Workers
• 3.Wage Function and Probability of Non-standard Workers
• 4.Cause of Recent Increase of Non-standard Workers
• 5.Policy Suggestions
• Chapter 12. Conlcusion (Richard B. Freeman/Sunwoong Kim)