Business Cycle Analysis on Korean Youth Labor Market using Alternative Unemployment Measures (in Korean)

Tae Bong Kim and Keunhyeong Park ()
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Keunhyeong Park: Monetary Policy Department, Bank of Korea

Economic Analysis (Quarterly), 2020, vol. 26, issue 2, 43-71

Abstract: This paper aims to derive macroeconomic implications by analyzing the business cycle characteristics of the youth unemployment. The results of empirical analysis seem to show that youth unemployment appears to be relatively less correlated with business cycle compared to other age groups, and thus it is difficult to explain the recent steady increase in the potential labor force as a result of the business cycle fluctuation alone. Moreover, the alternative unemployment measures of the youth group showing upward trend were estimated to be co-integrated with output measures. This co-integrated trend increase suggests that unlike other age groups, youth may be influenced by structural factors inherent in Korea's economic growth path. The fact that the wage difference based on firm size has widened steadily since the Asian financial crisis and that the proportion of large companies that provide relatively high-quality jobs compared to major industrialized countries is significantly lower may be the evidence of the structural changes in Korean youth labor market. The results of above analysis may explain why the job search periods for youth has lengthened amid these structural changes.

Keywords: Youth Unemployment; Alternative Measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J11 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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