Employment, Well-Being and Gender : : Dynamics and Interactions in Emerging Asia.

• Author: Rudolf, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2012.; ©2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158)

This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events like marriage can differ greatly by sex if traditional gender roles dominate and women contribute much less than men to household earnings. Furthermore, the study examines dynamics in rural East Asian economies and their impact on individual welfare outcomes. Both land redistribution and productivity-enhancing reforms are found to have been highly beneficial for Korean development. The Indonesian case study demonstrates the importance of cash-crop decisions and the growing non-farm sector for rural development.

Table of Contents

Cover -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- The Gender-Specific Effect of Working Hours Reductions on Family Happiness in South Korea -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background and Related Literature -- 1.3 Data and Methodology -- 1.4 Satisfaction Regression Results -- 1.4.1 Life Satisfaction -- 1.4.2 Hours and Job Satisfaction -- 1.4.3 Robustness Checks and Joint Happiness -- 1.5 Gender Identity, Intra-Household Bargaining, and Family Division of Labor -- 1.6 Concluding Remarks -- Adaptation under Traditional Gender Roles: Testing the Baseline Hypothesis in South Korea -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Gender Gap in Korea -- 2.3 Data and Methodology -- 2.3.1 Data -- 2.3.2 Anticipation and Adaptation Model -- 2.3.3 Intra-Marriage Gender Happiness Gap Model -- 2.4 Regression Results -- 2.4.1 Marriage-Status-Related Events -- 2.4.2 Labor Market Events -- 2.4.3 Determinants of Intra-Marriage Gender Happiness Gap -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Rural Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and the Biological Standard of Living in South Korea, 1941-1974 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Rural Reforms in 1950 and 1962/63 -- 3.3 Effect of Rural Reforms on Agricultural Productivity -- 3.3.1 Historical Farm Data -- 3.3.2 Land Reform and Trends of Agricultural Input and Output -- 3.3.3 Econometric Model -- 3.4 Effect of Rural Reforms on Individual Well-being -- 3.4.1 Body Height and Individual Welfare -- 3.4.2 Testing for Structural Breaks in Time Series -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- Cash Crop Choice and Income Dynamics in Rural Areas: Evidence for Post-Crisis Indonesia -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 Data and Setting -- 4.3.1 Variables of Interest -- 4.3.2 Descriptive Analysis -- 4.4 Model and Results -- 4.4.1 Basic Results -- 4.4.2 Robustness Checks -- 4.5 Extension -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Appendix Essay 1.

Appendix Essay 2 -- Appendix Essay 4 -- Bibliography.