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dc.contributor.author | Choi, Hoon | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-02T10:46:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-02T10:46:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2014-1254 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/96046 | - |
dc.description.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. | - |
dc.format.extent | 30 p. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública | - |
dc.relation.isformatof | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2016/201602.pdf | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IREA – Working Papers, 2016, IR16/02 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | AQR – Working Papers, 2016, AQR16/02 | - |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [WP E-AQR16/02] | - |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [WP E-IR16/02] | - |
dc.rights | cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Choi, 2016 | - |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | - |
dc.source | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) | - |
dc.subject.classification | Discriminació en el treball | - |
dc.subject.classification | Mercat de treball | - |
dc.subject.classification | Salaris | - |
dc.subject.classification | Corea | - |
dc.subject.other | Discrimination in employment | - |
dc.subject.other | Labor market | - |
dc.subject.other | Wages | - |
dc.subject.other | Korea | - |
dc.title | Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper | - |
dc.date.updated | 2016-03-02T10:46:49Z | - |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | - |
Appears in Collections: | AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional) – Working Papers Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) |
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