여성결혼이민자 유입이 한국 농업과 경제에 미치는 일반균형효과 분석

The Effects of the Women Immigrants (for Marriage) on Korean Agriculture and Economy: A CGE Analysis

The number of immigrants from Asian developing countries to Korea has been increasing sharply in the past decade. A unique phenomenon of the migration is that most of the immigrants are women who marry Korean men and constitute multi-culutural families in Korea. Many of them tend to marry Korean farmers and occupy a substatial share of new marriages in rural Kroea. There have been many concerns on removing cultural bottlenecks of their settlement in Korea, but there are very few discussions on their potential contributions to the Korean economy as a source of unskilled labor. This study reviews the immigration issues and predicts the marriage immigrants` potential share of rural labor in the future. The study constructs a CGE model where a detailed labor market specification is employed and analyzes the general equilibrium effects of their immigration. It is shown that their contributions are larger when they stay in rural sectors than when they re-emigrate to urban sectors.