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Title: | Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea |
Author: | Choi, Hoon |
Keywords: | Discriminació en el treball Mercat de treball Salaris Corea Discrimination in employment Labor market Wages Korea |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-AQR16/02] [WP E-IR16/02] |
Abstract: | Labor market segmentation is a growing phenomenon in many countries across different continents. In 2007, the Korean government undertook a labor reform prohibiting undue discriminatory treatment against fixed-term, part-time, and dispatched workers in an attempt to address income inequality arising from labor market duality. By exploiting a gradual introduction of the anti-discrimination law by firm size, I identify the treatment effects of the anti-discrimination law on gaps in wage and non-wage benefits between regular and non-regular workers, taking a difference-indifferences approach, a quasi-experimental design. My findings suggest that the imposition of the anti-discrimination law has significantly narrowed gaps in labor conditions between regular and non-regular workers. Labor conditions of targeted nonregular workers did not improve at the expense of those of non-targeted non-regular workers. Nevertheless, non-targeted non-regular workers being treated in a less favorable way raises another concern about the possibility of overusing non-targeted non-regular workers. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2016/201602.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2016, IR16/02 AQR – Working Papers, 2016, AQR16/02 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/96046 |
ISSN: | 2014-1254 |
Appears in Collections: | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional) – Working Papers |
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