Journal of Industrial Convergence (산업융합연구)

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Effect of Demand for Labor On Investment in Education

노동에 대한 수요가 교육에 대한 투자에 미치는 영향

  • Ahn, Sukwhan (Division of Economics, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • 안석환 (숙명여자대학교 경제학부)
  • Received : 2021.11.02
  • Accepted : 2021.12.20
  • Published : 2021.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine how demand for labor affects the job seeker's decision on the level of investment in education. In the current paradigm of economic growth in which innovations and technological developments generally weaken the strength demand for labor and increases the uncertainty related to employment, this paper provides a theoretical framework that can be used as a basic framework in understanding the decision of investment in education in varying conditions of demand for labor. The following are the findings of this paper. First, the level of investment in education can generally be regarded to be higher as the demand for labor exacerbates but for the job seekers with a certain characteristic. Second, the Arrow-Pratt absolute risk-aversion measure is the characteristic of the job seeker that determines in what direction the job seeker changes in the level of investment in education, For an arbitrary level of demand for labor there exists a certain threshold which determines the minimum degree of risk-aversion required for the job seeker's Arrow-Pratt should go over to increase the level of education as demand for labor weakens. Third, the job seekers lower the level of education even though the demand condition in labor markets weakens if the compensation function does not depend on the level of education. This is surprising because it turns out that one of the reasons why job seekers invest in education is that they want to be recognized in their compensation for their level of education even when more education still raises the probability of employment.

본 연구의 목적은 노동에 대한 수요가 구직자의 교육에 대한 결정에 어떤 영향을 미치는가를 분석함에 있다. 혁신과 기술진보가 노동에 대한 수요를 줄이고 노동시장의 불확실성을 증대시키는 상황에서 본 연구는 노동자의 교육에 대한 투자가 노동에 대한 수요에 어떻게 의존하는가를 판단하는데 도움이 되는 이론적 구조를 제공하고자 한다. 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 노동에 대한 수요가 감소할수록 교육에 대한 수요는 일반적으로 증가한다. 하지만 이런 결과는 반드시 성립하는 것은 아니다. 둘째, 감소하는 노동에 대한 수요에 대하여 노동자가 교육에 대한 수요를 증가시키는 것은 노동자의 (애로우-프랏 절대위험기피계수로 측정한) 위험기피도가 어떤 수준을 상회하는 경우에만 성립한다. 셋째, 노동에 대한 수요가 감소하더라도 노동자에 대한 보수가 그의 교육에 대한 투자를 반영하지 않는 경우, 노동자는 오히려 교육에 대한 투자를 줄인다.

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