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http://dx.doi.org/10.21186/IPR.2020.5.3.001

Analysis of Korean workers' working hours  

Baik, Jai wook (Department of Information Statistics, Korea National Open University)
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Industry Promotion Research / v.5, no.3, 2020 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the working hours of Korean workers in terms of occupation, employment contract period, employment type, final education level based on the first(2006), second(2010), third(2011), fourth(2014) Korean Working Conditions Survey(KWCS) results. Also KWCS was compared to European Working Conditions Survey(EWCS). It is found that weekly working hours were decreasing over the years since mid 2000 but weekly working hours of Korean were still longer than those of Europeans. It is also found that service workers and sales workers worked longer hours than specialists, that private sector worked longer hours than public and non-profit organization, and that the less educated worked longer hours than the more educated.
Keywords
Korean Working Conditions Survey(KWCS); European Working Conditions Survey(EWCS); Weekly Working Hours; Service workers; Worker; Working;
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