Class and Income Inequality in Korea
在韩国快速工业化的背景下，检验并改进了Wright的阶级模型，发现马克思主义阶级分类与职业地位同样能解释收入不平等，并提出了更适合发展中国家的修正模型。
This paper seeks to contribute to recent efforts to improve status attainment models by introducing class categories or labor market segmentation. The research reported here replicates and extends Wright and Perrone's (1977) analysis of class categories and income inequality in the United States in the context of a rapidly industrializing society. The results confirm that Marxist class categories are as consequential as occupational status in explaining income inequality in both advanced and developing capitalist societies. Yet, there are several difficulties in applying this class model to developing economies, so that a substantially modified class model is developed taking the manual-nonmanual distinction and structural marginality as additional major axes of class determination. This new model is superior to Wright's (1976) model in explaining income inequality in Korea. In the final part of the paper, a tentative test of a dependency model of inequality is attempted, with negative results for the predicted hypothesis of the center-periphery sectoral inequality.