• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.131-148
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to explore self-directed learning (SDL) in the workplace and to examine labor education in South Korea in order to draw the critical implications for legislation on trade union education (TUE). First, labor education in South Korea and its legal system were reviewed in a detailed way. Second, SDL in the workplace was closely analyzed from the perspectives of not only human resource development (HRD) but also adult education and lifelong learning. Third, based on the results of the comprehensive review, the implications of SDL in the workplace for worker-initiated labor education were discussed in terms of legislation on TUE in South Korea. Since legislation at the national level can promote workers' participation in TUE in the context of SDL for industrial democracy, TUE in South Korea should be provided with appropriate legislative, financial, and administrative support.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.179-203
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• 2020

This study aims to compare and analyze the impact of labor unions on job training programs using two different longitudinal data, Workplace Panel Survey (WPS) and Korean Labor and Inocme Panel Study (KLIPS). By applying the Correlated Random Effect (CRE) model to both individual-level and establishment-level data, we observe that labor unions increase the likelihood that establishments provide employees with job training programs and workers participate in the trainings. Our results shed light on the role of labor unions to increase the opportunities of job training programs for workers.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.87-101
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• 2007

Objectives: This study identified the labor union associates' perception and participation status on SHEW and analyzed these two Constructs correlations with Safety and health education at work(SHEW) in manufacture and construction industries. Methods: Self-administered survey was successfully finished by 103 labor union associates (91 employed in 78 manufacturing companies and 12 employed in 12 constructing companies over 12 areas). Two questionnaires, survey direction slip, the official letter to ask survey participation from Korea Ministry of Labor, and a posted envelop to return were delivered to each workplace labor union office in conveniently selected companies. Most participants' companies were at least medium to large in manufacturing industry and most associates were men and married. A survey questionnaire examined demographic characteristics, SHEW status (participation status included), and perceptions of SHEW. Results: Overall, manufacturing companies had better infrastructures for SHEW, employer support for SHEW, and current educators' competencies than constructing companies. These infrastructures for SHEW were closely correlated with company labor union participation on SHEW and the correlation coefficients were greater than any other expectations or needs variables for SHEW. Conclusions: The primary strategies for better participation and support from labor union need to be developed in supporting for organizational infrastructures related to SHEW and strengthening safety and health education training programs for supervisors or educators at work.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.88-98
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• 1995

본 연구는 확대기 가정주부의 가사노동 시간관리 전략방안을 모색하기 위한 자료를 제공하려는 데 그 목적이 있으며, 연구결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 주부의 가사노동시간은 1일 평균 6시간정도로서 80년대보다 감소한 것으로 나타났으며 유의적인 변수는 주부 의취업여부와 가족수이다. 둘째, 가사노동시간관리전략은 주부의 교육수준, 취업여부, 첫자녀나이, 월 총소득에 따라 의미있는 차이가 나타났다. 가사노동 시간관리전략의 하위영역인 가족성원간의 분담화는 주부의 취업여부, 첫 자녀나이, 가족수에 따라서 의미있는 차이가 나타났다. 가사노동 계통화에서는 가사노동 시간관리 전략의 하위영역중 가장 높은 평균점수를 나타냈으나 변수간에는 유의적인 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 가사노동 간소화는 주부의 교육수준, 취업여부, 결혼지속년수, 주거형태, 가족수, 월총소득에서 유의적인 차이가 나타난것으로 보아 대다수의 주부들이 가사노동을 간소화시키려는 의지가 있음을 알 수 있다. 가사노동 기계화는 주부의 교육수준, 월 총소득에 따라 유의적인 차이가 나탄났다. 세째, 가사노동시간에 영향을 미치는 가사노동시간관리전략은 간소화, 사회화 및 분담화로서 가사노동시간감소에 영향을 미치고 있으며, 계통화와 기계화는 가사노동 시간증가에 영향을 미치는 전략으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.21-35
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• 2021

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.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.73-102
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• 2008

This paper investigates the possibility that children in school limit their mothers' labor supply. The theoretical background for the possibility is that mothers may choose to stay home if their time and monetary inputs on children's quality investment are poor substitutes for each other. The empirical findings suggest that labor supply of highly educated women and those with high household income is relatively suppressed by their children in school.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.357-370
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• 1996

• Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.255-260
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• 2017

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.203-219
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• 1997

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.61-95
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• 2003

This paper investigates the characteristics of Japanese vocational education and training(VET) system and its recent changes with regard to the labour market changes under the long-term economic depression. The employment system model of Marsden(1999) is used as an analytical framework. By the review of 'the debate of intellectual skill', it is pointed out that the fundamental characteristic of Japanese VET system lies in forming multi-functional workers by the internal promotion in connection with the OJT-focused enterprise training along the job-competency rank system. In this system 'the skill as work-competency' is not institutionalised. By the long-term depression this type of internal labour market (ILM) has been under serious changes. By the policy analyses it is made clear that the direction of its change is not toward the collapse of the ILM. A series of labor market and VET policies does aim at sustaining the ILM by the introduction of the unified job qualification system, which is expected to institutionalise the widening external labour market into the craft-based labour market.