The role of seaports in regional employment: evidence from South Korea
基于2002-2013年韩国16个区域的面板数据，研究发现港口活动显著降低区域失业率，并分析了人口、GDP和家庭收入对失业率的影响。
The role of seaports in regional employment: evidence from South Korea. Regional Studies. This study examines the seaport’s influence on regional employment in all 16 regions of Korea, including seven metropolitan areas, based on panel data between 2002 and 2013. It expands an economic model of regional unemployment from labour economics and an autoregressive model from econometrics by employing port potentials separately estimated in a Tobit model. The result indicates that port activities significantly reduce regional unemployment rates relative to the national level. The role of population, gross domestic product (GDP) and household income on unemployment rate was highlighted, whilst various determinants of port potentials were investigated about whether they stimulate port potentials.