A Dynamic Study of Women's Labor Market Transitions: Career Interruptions and its Determinants

여성의 동태적 노동공급 - 취업연속성과 첫 노동시장 퇴출행태를 중심으로 -

  • Published : 2002.12.01

Abstract

Using detailed data of women's work history, this study analyses the transition process between employment and non-employment over the life history in order to identity individual and structural determinants in the processes. Korean women comprise very heterogeneous groups in terms of work continuity: one group having a continuous work history and another having an interrupted work experience. While 4.0% of total women have stayed in the labor market since leaving school, 17.3% have not worked outside at all and remaining 87.9% have experienced into and out of the labor market at least once. On the average, the cumulated time of employment per woman is 8.2 years and the cumulated time of unemployment is 13.1 years. Thus Korean women work a total of only 38.5% of their whole lifetime after leaving school. We can conclude that the increase of the employment rate of married women in Korea since the 1970s has been due to the increase of the new entrants with short or little working careers into the labor market, not to the increase of women's work continuity on the whole. A women's educational achievement does not seem to be positively related to employment duration, contrary to the suggestion of the human capital theory, Rather, family variables, especially the existence of the child under 6 yens old, is a more significant determining factor for an individual's exit from employment. And there is little difference among different age cohorts which implies little improvement in the employment continuity of younger women. This study also documents the importance of structural variables, such as the type of occupation, as significant determining factors for the hazard rate. Specially women with professional jobs tend to stay longer in the labor market. Therefore, women's entry into more professional occupations is expected to contribute to the continuity of employment. Our results also show that duration-dependence is not spurious. When unobserved heterogeneity is controlled, the negative relation between the rate from employment and the duration of employment does not disappear.

본고는 생애에 걸친 한국여성의 경제활동참가유형은 어떠한 것이며, 첫 노동시장 이동을 결정하는 요인은 무엇인지를 규명하고자 하였다. 분석모형으로 첫 비취업으로의 이행확률 결정요인을 추정하기 위해 가변변수를 통합하고, 또한 지속기간 의존성과 비관측 이질성을 통합할 수 있도록 Lancaster(1979)의 방식을 따라 기본해자드 모형을 확장시켰다. 분석자료는 한국여성개발원이 2001년에 실시한 $\ulcorner$제4차 여성취업실태조사$\lrcorner$ 결과이며, 최종분석대상은 표본가구에 거주하는 15세 이상 65세미만의 여성 중 재학생을 제외한 4,109 명이다. 여성의 이학 후 관측시점까지의 햇수는 평균 21.3년인데, 이 기간 중 실제로 취업한 햇수는 8.2년으로 총 기간의 38.5%에 해당한다. 또한 이 취업기간의 비중은 정규분포를 나타내지 않고 산포되어 있어, 여성은 노동공급의 연속성 측면에서 매우 이질적임을 보여준다. 여성의 첫 노동시장 퇴출을 결정하는 요인으로 직업과 생애주기가 유의하게 나타났다. 즉 전문직에 종사할수록 노동시장의 퇴출을 늦추는 한편, 결혼이나 출산에 비해‘6세 미만 자녀유무’가 중요 퇴출요인으로 나타났다. 이것은 출산이후에도 취업을 계속하던 여성들이 양육역할의 가중 및 둘째 자녀의 출산 등으로 취업을 중단하는 것을 시사한다. 그러나 여성의 학력은 생애주기에 관계없이 일관되게 취업지속기간을 짧게 하는 것으로 나타나 인적자본이론의 기대와 배치된다. 첫 퇴출로의 이행률은 부의 기간지속성을 나타내며, 비관측 이질성을 통제한 이후에도 부의 기간의존성이 여전하여 진정한(true) 음의 기간의존성이 존재하는 것으로 추정된다. 비관측 이질성을 통제할 때, 그 동안 부분적으로 존재하던 세대효과가 완전히 사라진다 따라서 최근 세대일수록 취업연속성이 증가하는 추이가 나타난다고 할 수 없으며, 그간 여성의 경제활동참여 증가가 취업연속성의 향상에 의해 기인한 것이 아니라 취업경력이 짧은 신규 진입자의 증가에 의한 것임을 암시한다.

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