• (The)Korea Educational Review
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.117-142
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to illustrate Richard Henry Tawney's idea of adult education among traditions of workers' education movement. The workers' education movement can be categorized into two streams. One tradition regards as the workers' education as a part of liberal education. The other tradition regards as it as a tool for social transformation. The former, which emphasizes the importance of liberal education in workers' education, had been developed in connection with the University Extension in England, and had a practical influence through the 'Workers' Educational Association(WEA)' organized by Mansbridge and other intellectuals. The latter, which emphasizes the social transformational function of education, conducted education in a form that is not clearly distinguished from propaganda, through the 'National Council of Labour College(NCLC)'. Tawney demonstrates the idea of adult education that synthesizes these two traditions, and this synthesization is related to his idea on equality. Tawney pursued socialism through democratic and non-violent way. He thought that adult education could contribute to the construction of socialism while at the same time conducting adult education based on liberal education. In other words, adult education based on liberal education, through rational understanding and discussion of the world, can contribute to social transformation. Tawney's idea of adult education provides practical implications for educationalists and educators who want progressive social change, and theoretically enriches educational research on the relationship between social transformation and education.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.129-157
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• 2011

This study attempts to analyze the effect of level of education on the attitudes toward immigrants or foreign workers. More specifically, we examine whether there is significant difference in the effects of the level of education and global mind on the attitude among three East Asian countries (South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan), controlling other socio-demographic factors in relation to increase in immigrants and foreign workers. Using EASS data, we employs sequential logit model to the general attitudes toward immigrant workers into the weighted sum of transition probability within each educational level. One major finding is that there is clear and significant difference in the relationship between the level of education and the attitudes toward foreign workers among three countries. In general, while Japanese and Taiwanese tend to have more open-minded attitudes toward foreign workers as they have higher level of education, Koreans are opposite case that they are little bit more hostile toward to foreign workers with higher level of education. Especially, there is strong positive effect of education on the attitude in Taiwanese case. Another finding is that while there is strong resistance against increase in migrant population in Korea and Taiwan, Japanese respondents want current level of foreign population to remain in the similar level. Our findings imply that there is no one converging pattern of relationship between the level of education and the positive attitudes toward foreign workers which can be applied to any country. Therefore, this paper suggests that unique political, social, and cultural characteristics of each country should be considered to better understand the effect of education on the attitude toward immigrants and foreign workers. Also, we conclude that systematic comparative-demographic analyses should be utilized to provide more comprehensive picture of how difference in educational level affects the attitude toward immigrants and foreign workers.

• 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 Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.392-400
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• 2014

2012년 통계청 자료에 의하면 한국에 체류하는 외국인은 약 160만명이고, 그 중 방글라데시 노동자는 약 4.7%(한국고용정보원, EPS, 2012)라고 한다. 본 논문의 연구를 위하여 김해(100명), 마산(60명), 인천(40명)에 거주하고 있는 방글라데시 이주 노동자 약 200명에 대하여 설문조사를 실시하였다. 이 연구의 목적은 그들의 직업만족도와 삶의 만족도 사이에는 어떤 관련성이 있는지, 그들의 한국에서의 삶의 만족도를 높이기 위한 방안은 무엇인지에 대하여 알아보고자 하는 것이다. 연구 결과 직업 만족도의 ${\alpha}$ 값은 0.71, 삶의 만족도에 대한 ${\alpha}$ 값은 0.72 이었다. 직업만족도에 대한 설문은 Paul E. Spector(1985)가 고안한 것을 사용하였으며, 삶의 만족도에 대한 설문은 Thomas M. Krapu외 4인이 연구한 것을 사용하였다. 연구 결과 방글라데시 이주 노동자의 직업만족도와 삶의 만족도 사이에는 강한 관련성이 있으며, 그들이 느끼는 삶의 만족도는 매우 낮았다. 이를 높이기 위해서는 정부와 시민단체들의 적극적인 지원이 필요하다고 분석되었다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.1-14
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to find the wage determinants of web-based platform workers. For this purpose, a total of 3,575 web-based platform workers' information from Freelancer.com, a global platform labor market, in September 2018 were used and whether or not newly available indicators such as evaluations by previous employers had a significant effect on the wage increase of platform workers using OLS and QR methods. As an OLS estimation results, the number of reviews, as well as education and experience, affects the wages of platform workers. However, as a result of the QR estimation, experience rather than education, recommendation rather than a review has a more significant effect on the wage of web-based platform workers as the wage level rises.

• Korean Journal of Family Social Work
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• no.43
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• pp.37-59
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze and find the relative importance of the factors impacting on the intent to leave among the female care worker's the labor properties, Total 540 questionnaire were distributed and collected from 387 female care workers working at the area of Daegu and GyeongBuk. The logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the relative importance among the factors. The results of the study are the followings: Academic ability, lower subjective-evaluation of remuneration, non-business contracts, labor intensity, the relationship between the user, the relationship between the agency providing are factors influencing on the turnover intention. In other words, higher education, lower subjective-evaluation of remuneration, more work than the contract, higher labor intensity, the female care workers have higher probability of turnover intention. Based on the results of the study, this paper suggests some implications as policy and practice.

• Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.109-142
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• 2018

This paper aims to analyze the Award wage system in Australia for construction workers. Considering low wages and precarious employment situation of construction workers in general, it is of advantage especially for them in Australia. Furthermore, it seems to be instructive for Korean construction workers, who stand in more precarious and unstable situation and furthermore are lack of fair wage and social safety. After strong and longstanding labour struggle in the late 19th century in Australia, it has been established a tripartite institution called as 'tribunal' between trade unions, employers, and the government. Under the highly institutionalized form of industrial relations, it functions as an arbitration and conciliation system between labour and management. The Award wage system stands in the middle point. This Award wage system including various welfare provisions is settled by the tribunal, today renamed as Fair Work Commission. In this wage system should be defined level of minimum wages according to the various skill levels, which are in turn connected with compulsory superannuation and Medicare as well as vocational education and training. Furthermore, it provides especially for the construction workers, who suffer from job instability, so-called 'portable benefits', which relate to long service leave and redundancy pay. Considering general conditions of precarious construction workers in Korea, In that respect, the Australian Award wage system would be very instructive for our social wage and safety system for construction workers.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.391-419
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factor that brings about information literacy gap by comparing and analyzing the group with high level and not so high level information literacy for migrant workers and to seek policy to clear the information literacy gap. To accomplish such purpose, the author found the operation of various factors that bring about information literacy gap through in-depth interview of migrant workers and working level NGO staff. The result of interview revealed that information literacy gap of migrant workers is generated by the complex operation of personal characteristics, technical factor, social and economical factor, government policy factor and so on.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2022.04a
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• pp.165-169
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• 2022

연구의 목적은 𐩒𐩒은행-N사의 SME 교육프로그램에 참여한 자영업자를 대상으로 자영업을 시작하게 된 동기와 경로를 규명해보는데 있다. 본 연구는 자영업자의 노동시장 및 노동경험 등에 따라 자영업 진입에 관한 연구를 수행하고자 심층 인터뷰 자료를 활용하였는데, 연구참여자의 선정에 있어 이론적 표본 추출방식을 사용하여 연구의 목적에 부합하는 대상자를 선발하여 분석하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 자영업자가 자영업에 진입하게 된 동기는 ① 전 직장의 근로조건 불만족과 본인 사업을 향한 꿈의 실현을 위해 자영업에 진입하였고 ② 취업에 대한 대안으로 자영업을 선택하였으며 ③ 가족과 지인의 창업에 대한 권유와 도움으로 자영업을 선택하게 되었다. 둘째, 자영업자가 진입하게 된 유형은 ① 임금노동자 경험 후 자영업자 창업 ② 임금노동자 경험 후 경력을 활용하여 유관분야 자영업 창업 ③ 임금노동자 퇴사 후 자영업 승계 ④ 본인의 자영업 창업 경험 이후 가업 승계 과정에서의 자영업으로 진입하는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.346-355
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to suggest measures to improve safety and health training by analyzing trainees who participated in the training programs. A survey was administered to 226 trainees who participated in and completed the safety and health training programs provided by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency. The study results showed that the level of satisfaction of employers for the training programs was the lowest compared to the middle managers and employees. Moreover, the middle managers' job competencies were increased, and they applied newly acquired knowledge and skills to their jobs. However, there were significant differences between industries. Finally, although all levels of trainee agreed on the effectiveness of safety and health training, the perceptions of employers were lower than those of employees. Based on these study results, several implications to improve the safety and health training were suggested.