• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.251-276
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• 2014

This study scrutinizes the common sense in the field of disability employment that the bigger the size of a firm, the lower the employment rate of people with disabilities. This common sense has been established by conventional cross-tabulation and multiple regression analyses without taking into account possible interactions between the sizes of firms and the industries in which they operate. This study shows that the distribution of the disability employment rate violates the linearity and homoscedasticity assumptions of the OLS. In an effort to find models that explain the data better, this study fits the OLS model, the weighted linear regression model, and the multinomial logit model as well as the path analysis which is meant to examine the relationships between firm size and other variables relevant to disability employment. The result shows that, when an interaction term between firm size and industry is added to the model, firm size does not have any significant effect on disability employment rate for those firms with 100 or more regular employees, to the contrary of the findings of prior studies. It also demonstrates that other factors such as job setting, the extent of helpfulness of disability employment employers perceive, employers' care for disability, and employers' awareness of disability policies may matter more than does firm size. This study proposes that future research and policy implementation for disability employment should pay no less attention to industry and other factors mentioned above than to firm size.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.175-200
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• 2018

Since the 1990s rising intangible asset has become one of the main driving forces of investment stagnation and jobless growth in advanced income countries. We investigate how does the impact of firms' profitability on employment growth depends on the intangibility and whether the relationship between profitability and tangibility has complementarity. With data on Korean firms over the period 1988~2017 we investigate the effects of intangibility and profitability on employment growth based on the econometric approach of system GMM. The empirical results are as follows. (1) the profit rate has gradually led to lower employment growth, while it had positive effect on employment before the period of financial crisis. The estimated values and signs of profit rate coefficients varies from traditional industries to high/medium tech. industries. (2) the effect of increasing asset intangibility ratio on employment growth is negative and statistically significant. (3) the coefficients of interaction term of (profit rate ${\times}$ intangibility ratio) have significant negative values. It means employment effect of profit rate are becoming higher(lower) as intangibility ratio is at the lower(higher) level; profits rate and intangibility are not complement with each other. The results imply that to boost employment industrial policy which has the capacity to coordinate business intangibility is preferred to expansionary demand policy.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.127-153
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• 2004

In the absence of a male provider the state must decide how far and under what conditions it will provide for the mother and her children. In the case of lone mothers, there are three main possible sources of income: the labour market, the absent father, and the state. However, the relative proportions of these three sources vary significantly from country to country as well as from individual to individual within the group of lone parents. Until very recently the UK has been alone among countries of the EU in allowing lone parents to draw benefits without making themselves available for work so long as they have dependent children. However, in the 1990s, the UK government introduced major changes to his policies regarding lone parents. The UK government attempted to restrict the role of the state as a source of income for lone parent families. At the beginning of the 1990s, the emphasis in the UK was put on securing more money from 'absent fathers' to maintain. However, the policy was unsuccessful and by the mid-1990s attention to the only other possible source of income for lone parent families, the labour market, was stepped up, notwithstanding the ambivalence of politicians about the desirability of women with young children entering employment. From 1998 the Labour government introduced a series of reforms aimed at reducing both worklessness and poverty by raising welfare payments to families both in and out of work, improving financial incentives to work and introducing a more proactive welfare system. The results presented here suggest that these policies have raised the employment rates of lone parents by around 5 percentage points, or 80,000. These employment gains have come from a welfare reform package that does not require lone parents to search for jobs, or uses time limits in welfare programmes. In addition these gains have been achieved despite generous increases in welfare payments for lone parents who do not work. These earnings gains combined with the more generous welfare are making rapid progress in reducing lone parents' poverty.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.3253-3262
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• 2013

This study aims to analyse the regional disparity of the youth employment and to regional current states and characteristics via evaluation criteria for employment competitiveness. Summaries of the major results in this study are as following. Firstly, it has revealed that the regional disparity of youth employment is deepening. Secondly, after the analysis of employment competitiveness, the strongest regional employment competitiveness was found to be Seoul(0.622), followed by Chungnam(0.592), Ulsan(0.528), Gyeongbuk(0.514), Gyeonggi(0.507) and the region of employment risky is Jeonbuk. Lastly, the most influencing factors on the competitiveness of youth employment are supply factors and demand factors. Therefore, we must create new jobs of good quality, in order to reduce regional disparity and strengthen the competitiveness of youth employment. Also region of employment risky should require continuous monitoring. And the government should determine priorities of employment policies that suitable for regional characteristics. That is to say, the government should contribute to establishing the strategy of choice and focus.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 1989

본고(本稿)에서는 최근 미국연방준비은행(美國聯邦準備銀行)의 Hallman Porter Small이 개발한 인플레추정방법, 즉 화폐수량식에 장기균형유통속도(長期均衡流通速度)($V^*$), 잠재생산력(潛在生産力)($Q^*$), 장기균형기준물가(長期均衡基準物價)(P*)등의 개념을 적용하여 인플레식(式)을 추정하는 방법을 우리나라에 적용하여 보았다. 이를 위해 $V^*$는 인플레의 변동에 의해 구조적(構造的)으로 변동(變動)될 수 있다는 점과 $Q^*$는 고용(雇傭)뿐 아니라 투자의 함수라고 가정하고 자본스톡 및 $Q^*$를 내생적으로 추정하는 등으로 $V^*$, $Q^*$의 개념을 재정립하였다. 추정결과(推定結果)에 의하면 87년초 이후부터 실질생산(實質生産) 잠재(潛在)GNP를 초과하게 되었으며 통화공급(通貨供給) 역시 확대되어 $P^*$가 P를 넘어서는 현상, 즉 물가상승압력(物價上昇壓力)이 누적되어 왔으며, 이에 따른 물가불안이 해소되기에는 정책대응여하에 따라 상당한 기간이 소요될 수도 있을 것으로 냐타났다. 즉, 시뮬레이션결과 종합해 보면 물가상승압력(物價上昇壓力)의 완화를 위해서는 투자진작을 통한 잠재생산력(潛在生産力)의 확충과 아울러 긴축기조(緊縮基調)의 유지라는 일견(一見) 상반(相反)되는 정책기조(政策基調)를 동시에 추진해 나가야 할 것으로 나타났다. 현재의 경기국면에 대한 대응책으로는 통화공급(通貨供給)을 확대시키는 단순한 총량적 정책보다는 긴축기조(緊縮基調)를 유지하면서도 통화(通貨)의 신축적(伸縮的)인 공급이 투자(投資) 고용(雇傭) 등의 생산부문(生産部門)으로 원활히 흐를 수 있도록 하는 동시에 금융구조(金融構造) 경제구조(經濟構造)를 개선해 나가는 미시적이고도 포괄적인 정책이 요구된다 하겠다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.1-38
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• 2018

The paper investigates the determinants of female, maternal, and male employment in a comparable setting using an unbalanced panel data of 29 OECD countries from 2000-2013. Our empirical results show that early childhood childcare and education (ECEC) is positively associated with female employment. Furthermore, we find that ECEC does not hurt male employment. We also find that tax rates on the second earner are negatively associated with male employment as well as female employment. The estimated coefficients of ECEC, social expenditure, tax rates, and tertiary education attainment rates in maternal employment regressions are much larger in the absolute value than those in female employment regressions. Policy implications of our analysis are that an expansion of ECEC, a lower tax on secondary earner, and education are key to promote the total employment as well as female employment.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.2909-2920
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• 2012

The roles of public and private employment service agencies have been considered crucially important due to the increasing interest of employment services and policies since the Korean Currency Crisis. Eventually, the roles of a manager and a follower of employment service agencies have been of greater importance. In this study, several means concerning the improvement in organizational performances are suggested by studying the leadership's influence of a team leader in employment service agency over the organizational commitment of the followers. In addition to this, influential factors exerted to the organizational performances in an employment service agency have been analysed by the justice awareness between the two groups - team leaders and followers. The analytic results have shown that the transactional leadership has nothing to do with the organizational commitment whereas the transformational leadership has the positive influence over the organizational commitment. However, the leadership of a leader surely influences both distributional and procedural justice. With these facts, it has been proven that these justice have also influenced on the organizational committment. Throughout the process, it has been identified that the distributional justice has more impact on the organizational commitment rather than on the procedural justice.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.91-116
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• 2012

This paper analyzes how the adverse impacts of the global financial crisis on Korea's employment could be mitigated in comparison with the Asian crisis period. The results from error-correction models suggest that the less severe impacts during the global financial crisis could be attributed to (i) smaller GDP reduction, (ii) better maintenance of domestic demand despite a sharp fall of export, (iii) less serious over-employment during the run-up to the crisis, and (iv) less severe credit crunch. Analyses of OECD cross-country data provide corroborating evidence. In order to mitigate adverse impacts on employment, therefore, priority should be given to expansionary macroeconomic policies to keep aggregate domestic demand from collapsing once a crisis is triggered. Also crucial, however, is to maintain sound economic structures such as flexible labor market and adequately supervised financial market.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.183-201
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• 2003

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.256-276
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• 1997