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186217
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We estimate the effect of exports to China on local employment in South Korea, exploiting variations in trade and employment across 220 South Korean municipalities between 2007 and 2017. To identify the effect of exports on employment, we use a novel instrument: China's exports to the US. This isolates the demand-side factors for South Korean exports to China from the supply-side factors that lead to biased estimations using ordinary least squares regressions. The results of a two-stage least squares estimation using municipality-level data confirm that increased exports to China contribute to a rise in employment in South Korean local labor markets. This effect occurs mostly in the service and construction industries rather than in the manufacturing sector.
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ID:
103501
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ID:
146685
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This article empirically investigates the role played by agglomeration economies as location determinants and provides explanations for the spatial distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) in services in China from the perspective of regional characteristics. The generalised hypotheses on China’s FDI in services are tested utilising a panel data of 17 provinces and cities from 2000 to 2010. The results find evidence that agglomeration economies appear to be significant pull factors. Growth potential, purchasing power and development of service industry have significant positive effects. It is suggested that FDI in services is conducted to access domestic markets, rather than serve as an export platform. The analysis reveals that government intervention has a deterrent impact and makes agglomeration economies play a more important role in attracting FDI. Population density, labour quality and labour cost do not exert significant effects on FDI inflow in services.
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ID:
147863
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This paper explores how institutional service provision for North Koreans in South Korea contributes to formulating specific kinds of North Korean subjectivity. North Korean matters are still controversial and riddled with various political issues, including the Cold War, ethnic homogeneity, and neoliberal changes. There has been significant critique on over-competition, resource misuse, and inadequate services for this population in South Korea to date. Semi-government resettlement agencies called Hana Centers have attempted to standardize and individualize service provision to North Koreans since 2009 reflecting neoliberal welfare trend in South Korea. In the space where the stated policy and actual practices create gap in-between, the values of practicality and neutrality take precedence in operating the Hana Centers. Bureaucratic practices of Hana Centers on the ground reveal contradictory and divergent operations, featuring street-level bureaucracy and localized governmentality. This paper specifically attends to the depoliticizing and decontextualizing effects that the Hana Centers exert in configuring North Korean subjectivity, with detailed descriptions of bureaucratic operations.
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