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 m...

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.