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The Informal Economy and Bribery in North Korea

Author(s) -

ByungYeon Kim,

Yu Mi Koh

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

asian economic papers

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.522

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 1536-0083

pISSN - 1535-3516

DOI - 10.1162/asep_a_00092

Subject(s) - informal sector , economy , planned economy , economics , component (thermodynamics) , business , economic system , market economy , physics , thermodynamics

This paper uses the data of 227 North Korean refugees who have settled in South Korea to investigate the relationship between working in the informal economy (market component of the economy) and bribe-giving, and between bribe-giving and the number of hours worked in the formal sector (planned component of the economy). The first relationship is positive, and the second relationship is negative. These results imply that widespread informal economy activities in North Korea have been undermining the socialist regime through bribery. © 2011 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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