• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.95-137
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• 2012

Inflow of foreign workers and immigrants increase the supply of unskilled labor in the economy. In measuring their impacts, an impact evaluation method produces unreliable estimates because a control group independent from their impacts is hardly found within the economy. This study adopts an aggregate factor proportions approach and measures the impacts by estimating the effects of skills proportion changes in labor supply on relative wages. The estimation uses two and three skills groups categorized by education levels. The study reveals that foreign workers and immigrants contribute to economic growth by a small margin while they significantly widen the wage gap between native skilled and unskilled workers. The result is based upon the fact that the existing foreign workers and immigrants are predominantly the least skilled groups. The estimates can be applied in predicting the impacts of labor inflow from North Korea which always remains as a possibility in Korea.

• RED RIBBON
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• s.70
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• pp.26-27
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• 2006

한국의 성산업에 외국에서 이주해온 여성들이 유입되기 시작한 것은 1990년대 중반부터이다. ‘한국외국인관광시설업협회’는 1996년부터 예술흥행사증 발급을 편법적으로 활용하여 필리핀 여성들과 구 소련계 여성들을 성매매 목적으로 도입하였다. 그 후 한국정부는 외국인 공연허가제 규제를 완화의 일환으로 폐지하고, 외국인 연예인을 수입하는 절차를 대폭 간소화하여 인력수입업자들은 일정한 시설요건만 갖추면 쉽게 근로자파견사업허가를 받도록 하였다. 즉, 국내에서 일하는 외국인 연예인은 국내공연 기획사에 고용된 근로자로서 공연업소에 파견되는 근로자로 자리매김한 것이다. 그러나 그들은 실상 공연을 하는 것보다 성적 서비스를 하도록 강요당하며 인권의 사각지대에 놓여 있다.

• 건강소식
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• v.10 no.5 s.90
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• pp.20-23
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• 1986

최근 조사나 보고에 의하여 이미 1970년도에는 박멸 되었으리라 믿었던 말라리아가 외국에서 유입되는가 하면, 강원도 일부 지역주민들 중 몇 사람은 외국 여행 경력이 없는 데도 말라리아에 걸린 적이 있어 우리나라에 또 다시 말라리아가 번지지 않을까 염려되기도 한다.

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.173-176
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• 2003

지난 10여년간 한국 사회는 급격한 속도로 세계화라는 변화를 경험하고 있다. 이 변화 중의 하나가 '외국인 노동자의 급증'이라는 현상이다. 지난 90년대 초부터 등장하기 시작한 외국인 노동자들은, 그 수가 급속도로 증가하면서, 외국인 노동자들의 집단거주지 까지 생기기 시작하였다. 하지만, 외국인 노동자의 유입과 관련된 사회적 변화들은 한국 사회의 세계화를 언급할 때, 흔히 '잊혀지는'(forgotten) 부분이다. (중략)

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.16
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• pp.1-28
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• 1993

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.339-354
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• 2009

The purposes of this study are to identify many implications of commuting regional type according to the features of foreigner commuting. Research on the pattern of distribution of foreigners has been very simple and limited because foreigners usually lived together in a specific area, and their workplace often tended to be their residence. However they currently live dispersed more Widely, and their job and housing increasingly tend to be mismatched. This study divided areas inhabited by foreigners into general one characterized by job-housing match and exceptional one characterized by job-housing mismatch, and then examined the features of foreigner commuting. General commute type showed a high rate of intra area commute and foreign workers' universal features. Inflow commute type showing high E/R ratio. In these areas, outflow commuters had a short journey to work while inflow commuters had relatively a long journey to work, and professionals accounted for a high proportion of employees. Outflow commute type showing low E/R ratio. In these areas, outflow commuters had a long journey to work while inflow commuters had a relatively short journey to work. The composition ratio of three commute types was different according to nationality and visa type.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.147-168
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• 2007

The objective of this study is to examine the studies of foreign workers in Korea at a level of meta-analysis focusing on their subjects and methodology. Over the last 15 years, studies of foreign workers have diversified subjects and refined methodology reflecting major characteristics of migration patterns including a rapid increase in number, large populations of illegal sojourners, a majority low-skilled young male workers from less developed countries, and an active role of migrant-support NGOs. Nevertheless, the studies have shown problems such as a higher ratio of macroscopic discussions, overemphasis on social problematic issues and a tendency towards descriptive analysis. Methodologically, they have also revealed an inactive use of empirical and quantitative data, lack of representativeness of sample and disregard of an importance of language in the study of foreigners. Based on the analysis, this study proposes strategies to enhance researches of foreign workers in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.390-413
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• 2010

Facing reconfiguration of world economic order in the process of globalization and changes in domestic economic and social conditions, Japan has experienced a rapid inflow of foreign immigrants and hence a restructuring of labor market and ethic and cultural mixture. This paper explores contexts of inflow and social and spatial characteristics of immigrant workers in Japan. Uneven regional development on the global level and shifting to flexible accumulation regime, depletion of previously underutilized labor resource, better-educated youth and shrinking and aging of Japanese populace on the national level can be pointed out as important elements of immigration contexts. This paper also explains the hierarchizaton of labor market and differentiation of spatial distribution of immigrant workers in Japan in terms of visa condition and nationality. In particular, focusing on the case of Hiroshima prefecture, this paper analyzes residential differentiation of immigrants according to their nationality. Finally, it finds out some problems which immigrant workers have confronted in Hiroshima region.

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.21-38
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• 2024

Understanding the interrelationship between regional population dynamics and cultivated land is crucial for promoting regional economic vitality and enhancing food security. While prior research often addressed population migration and changes in crop area separately, this study employs a Panel Vector Auto Regression Model to examine the dynamic interaction between regional population shifts, changes in crop area, and the influx of foreign workers in agriculture. The results reveal a reciprocal relationship between population influx and crop area, indicating a negative impact on each other. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates that an expansion in crop area, particularly in field cultivation, significantly correlates with an increase in foreign workers. These findings underscore the mutual influence of labor shortages and diminished land availability in agriculture, with the influx of foreign workers potentially offering a positive impact on addressing structural challenges in rural areas.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.17-39
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• 2011

As recent inflows of foreign immigrants to relatively advanced countries in Northeast Asia have rapidly increased, Japan in particular uses 'multicultural coexistance' as a key concept for developing both discourse and policies on them. This paper is first of all to suggest a new typology of multicultural societies in the world ill order to differentiate the case of Northeast Asian countries from those of Western countries. And this paper is to suggest that foreign immigrants in Japan have different positions in labor markets and living experiences according to historical and social backgrounds as well as their nationality. The transformation process towards multicultural society is not only historical and social but also geographical and spatial, as foreign immigrants have made different spatial distribution and regional segregation in types. In order to control this socio-spatial process towards multicultural society, Japan has developed the concept of 'multicultural coexistence' similar with that of multiculturalism in Western countries. This concept seems to be quite significant as it has been initiated by local communities for symbiotic relationship between foreign immigrants and native Japanese dwellers. But it can be regarded as a strategic ideology to control foreign immigrants as it targets mainly on Nikkeijin, and is usually concerned with the cultural aspect. Seen from a theoretical point of view, this concept can be seen as closed with liberal multiculturalism as opportunity equity, but far from corporative multiculturalism as outcome equity, and it is on the process transferring from the first stage of tolerance to the second stage of legislation of nondiscrimination, while being distant from the third stage of legislation paradigmization of recognition, and hence appears to be easily reverted to assimilationism.