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Essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of two chapters on labor economics. In the first chapter, we study redistributions via the United States Social Security ...
Essays on inequality and mobility of Korean households' income and consumption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes income and consumption inequality empirically and theoretically using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). This dissertation consists of three chapters. First two chapters are about ...
Essays on empirical models of retirement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
solves these problems. First, I model expectations of pension rule changes. Second, I adjust the sample selection bias by using distribution of initial preference errors. Third, I group individual teachers into a fixed number of (age, experience) cells...
Dynamic models of credit ratings and default probabilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The upheaval in the capital markets since 1997 has highlighted the need for orderly stress testing of banks' portfolios, including both their trading ...
Rural southern residents and the incentive to work
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"There has been much interest in the past few years in welfare reform. This interest is a result of the rising criticisms of the many relief measures which comprise the welfare, or public assistance, program. Two of these ...
Essays on climate econometrics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This paper proposes a nonlinear cointegrating regression model based on the well-known energy balance climate model. Specifcally, I investigate the nonlinear cointegrating regression of mean of temperature anomaly distributions ...
A study on the trade-off between supervision and wages: an empirical test of efficiency wage theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation investigates the applicability of the shirking version of efficiency wage models in Korea. Analyses is based on the Survey on Wage Structure in the 1980's and 1990's - using data collected in 1983, 1989, ...
The fiscal responsiveness to economic fluctuations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In this paper I investigate the pattern of the fiscal responsiveness with economic development and the determinants of the fiscal responsiveness for 79 central governments during 1972 ~ 2007. For the analysis, I estimate ...