Monthly Labor Review

The Monthly Labor Review aims to provide useful insights into current labor issues and policies to scholars as well as ordinary Koreans who do not specialize in labor. Although its predecessor, the Monthly Labor Bulletin, provided basic statistics and analysis on current labor issues until December 2004, it was often criticized for targeting a limited readership, namely scholars. Thus, with the goal of helping readers better understand a wide range of labor issues; the Korea Labor Institute began publishing the Monthly Labor Review in January 2005. It is composed of a Labor Focus, Feature Articles, Issue Analysis, Panel Study, Statistics Prism, and Labor Market Trends.

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▣ Labor Focus
The Outlook for Wage Growth in 2015 and the Need for Changes in the Labor Market (Sung-teak Kim)

▣ Special Feature 1: The Outlook for Wage Growth
Wage Trends in 2014 and the Outlook for Wage Growth in 2015 (Bok-sun Kim)

▣ Special Feature 2: Issues of Labor Market Reform
Legislation Plan for Ordinary Wages (Ji-sun Park)
Reduction of Working Hours (Kiu-sik Bae)
Issues of Labor Market Reform: Extension of the Retirement Age (Dong-bae Kim)

▣ Issue Analysis
Business Fluctuations in the Manufacturing Industry (Hyun-sang Jung)

▣ Review of Labor Law Cases

▣ Labor Market and Labor Relations Trends