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Essays on Labor Economics
Essays on Labor Economics
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151313
- ISBN
- 9798382742861
- DDC
- 950
- 저자명
- Oh, Ji Hyun.
- 서명/저자
- Essays on Labor Economics
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Georgetown University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 109 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Albrecht, James;Vroman, Susan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Across three chapters of my dissertation, I explore diverse topics and policy implications related to labor economics. In the first chapter, I investigate the relationship between relative income and deaths of despair in the United States. In the second and third chapters, I analyze South Korea's dual labor market structure. I study the impact of Korea's employment protection legislation (EPL) on worker mobility between sectors in chapter 2 and analyze the role of the informal sector in chapter 3.In the first chapter, I investigate relative income as a possible driver to the increasing deaths of despair among non-Hispanic white male Americans in the United States between 2006 to 2016. I analyze two plausible comparisons in income: non- Hispanic white men's income relative to that of black and Hispanic men and relative to that of their household members. I find that deaths of despair among younger non-Hispanic white men change more sensitively to relative income compared to the older population.In the second chapter, I analyze the impact of South Korea's 2007 EPL on the transition patterns of young male workers between different sectors using a three-state on-the-job search model. While formal workers in South Korea benefit from permanent contracts with better insurance coverage and non-salary compensation, workers with informal status have non-permanent contracts and are mostly not entitled to insurance benefits. In 2007, the Korean government implemented an EPL to prohibit the exploitation of informal workers. I find that the 2007 EPL could have benefitted both high-school and college graduate men in the informal sector if it facilitated their transition into the formal sector. I also find that starting off in the informal sector has a long-term scarring effect for college graduate men, whereas high-school graduate male workers are not negatively impacted by their entry status in the long run.In the last chapter, I examine the role of South Korea's informal sector using a piecewise constant hazard model. Being employed in an informal job may provide workers chances to enhance their skills or may provide employers more information to screen workers into a formal job. Estimated transition patterns suggest that South Korea's informal sector is a screening device rather than a skill accumulation opportunity for both high-school graduate and college graduate male workers. As most worker transitions into the formal sector happen at the beginning of worker's career without further skill enhancement, this likely supports the dead-end hypothesis of informal jobs.
- 일반주제명
- East Asian studies
- 키워드
- Labor market
- 키워드
- Job mobility
- 키워드
- Relative income
- 키워드
- South Korea
- 기타저자
- Georgetown University Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2024.
■520 ▼aAcross three chapters of my dissertation, I explore diverse topics and policy implications related to labor economics. In the first chapter, I investigate the relationship between relative income and deaths of despair in the United States. In the second and third chapters, I analyze South Korea's dual labor market structure. I study the impact of Korea's employment protection legislation (EPL) on worker mobility between sectors in chapter 2 and analyze the role of the informal sector in chapter 3.In the first chapter, I investigate relative income as a possible driver to the increasing deaths of despair among non-Hispanic white male Americans in the United States between 2006 to 2016. I analyze two plausible comparisons in income: non- Hispanic white men's income relative to that of black and Hispanic men and relative to that of their household members. I find that deaths of despair among younger non-Hispanic white men change more sensitively to relative income compared to the older population.In the second chapter, I analyze the impact of South Korea's 2007 EPL on the transition patterns of young male workers between different sectors using a three-state on-the-job search model. While formal workers in South Korea benefit from permanent contracts with better insurance coverage and non-salary compensation, workers with informal status have non-permanent contracts and are mostly not entitled to insurance benefits. In 2007, the Korean government implemented an EPL to prohibit the exploitation of informal workers. I find that the 2007 EPL could have benefitted both high-school and college graduate men in the informal sector if it facilitated their transition into the formal sector. I also find that starting off in the informal sector has a long-term scarring effect for college graduate men, whereas high-school graduate male workers are not negatively impacted by their entry status in the long run.In the last chapter, I examine the role of South Korea's informal sector using a piecewise constant hazard model. Being employed in an informal job may provide workers chances to enhance their skills or may provide employers more information to screen workers into a formal job. Estimated transition patterns suggest that South Korea's informal sector is a screening device rather than a skill accumulation opportunity for both high-school graduate and college graduate male workers. As most worker transitions into the formal sector happen at the beginning of worker's career without further skill enhancement, this likely supports the dead-end hypothesis of informal jobs.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0076.
■650 4▼aEast Asian studies
■653 ▼aLabor market
■653 ▼aJob mobility
■653 ▼aEmployment protection legislation
■653 ▼aRelative income
■653 ▼aSouth Korea
■690 ▼a0501
■690 ▼a0510
■690 ▼a0773
■71020▼aGeorgetown University▼bEconomics.
■7730 ▼tDissertations Abstracts International▼g85-11A.
■790 ▼a0076
■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17161123▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


