Sunwoong Kim

Labor specialization, agglomeration economies, and regional resource allocation /--by Sunwoong Kim. (1985)

Kim, Sunwoong.

Supervised by William C. Wheaton and Peter A. Diamond.

The determinants of household migration patterns in Kenya

Richard Agesa, Sunwoong Kim

Labor Specialization and Endogenous Growth.

Kim, Sunwoong, Mohtadi, Hamid

Rural to Urban Migration as a Household Decision: Evidence from Kenya.

Agesa, Richard U, Kim, Sunwoong

A simple intertemporal expected-utility model for the household is developed to explore the determinants of split and family migration. Split migration occurs when the household head moves from a...

Who's in charge here? The tangled web of school governance and policy. N. Epstein (Ed.), Brookings Institution Press The Washington, DC and Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO (2004) ISBN: 0-8157-2472-1, (303pp, $ 32.95, cloth); ISBN: 0-8157-2471-3 ($22.95 paper).

Kim, Sunwoong

Modeling the Korean Chonsei Lease Contract

Brent W. Ambrose, Sunwoong Kim

Chonsei is a unique Korean lease contract in which the tenant pays an up-front deposit, typically about 40 to 80% of the value of the property, with no requirement for periodic rent payments. At the...

Reply to the remarks by H.M. Abdel-Rahman

Kim, Sunwoong

Heterogeneity of labor markets and city size in an open spatial economy

Kim, Sunwoong

In: Paul T. Hill and Robin J. Lake with Mary Beth Celio, Editors, Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (2002) 160 pp., ISBN 0-8157-0266-3, $ 39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8157-0267-1, $16.95 (paperback).

Kim, Sunwoong

Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education: edited by Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2001, 322 pp., US$19.00 (paperback)

Kim, Sunwoong

A product differentiation model with outside goods and price bargaining

Kim, Sunwoong

Labor heterogeneity, wage bargaining, and agglomeration economies

Kim, Sunwoong

On using mandatory retirement to reduce workforce in korea

Joonmo Cho, Sunwoong Kim

Since the financial crisis in 1998, many Korean corporations with low profitability and excessive liabilities cut operating costs. They had to deal with exorbitant wage increases that outpaced...

Editors' introduction

John Heywood, Sunwoong Kim

Widening inter-county inequality in Jiangsu province, China, 1950-95

Yehua Dennis Wei, Sunwoong Kim

Scholars have heatedly debated the change of regional inequality in China and policies for intervention. However, most studies on China are based on macro regions and provinces, and have paid less...

Search, Hedonic Prices and Housing Demand.

Kim, Sunwoong

The conventional model of the housing market does not take into account the search process for a suitable housing unit. Based on a dynamic search theory, this paper develops and estimates a truncated...

Policies to Reduce Rent Seeking in Controlled Markets

Sunwoong Kim, Yoon-Ha Yoo

We analyze the effects of various policies to reduce rent seeking in the controlled market in which buyers have heterogeneous valuation regarding the coveted good. The good is allocated according to...

Labor Specialization and the Extent of the Market.

Kim, Sunwoong

This paper presents an analytical model of labor specialization. Workers make human capital investment decisions on the depth and the breadth of their skill. Given that firms have diverse job...

Education, Job Signaling, and Dual Labor Markets in Developing Countries

Kim, Sunwoong, Mohtadi, Hamid

An overlapping generational model of educational investment in a dual labor markets is presented in which education serves both as a screening device and as investment in human capital. Labor market...

Labor Specialization and Endogenous Growth

Mohtadi, Hamid, Kim, Sunwoong

International Development, Labor and Human Capital,

Race and home price appreciation in urban neighborhoods: Evidence from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sunwoong Kim