• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.214-222
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• 2022

It is important to realize employment equality to fulfill corporate social responsibility. The most suitable indicator for assessing its performance is the gender wage gap. Korea is considered the country with the most severe gender wage gap among OECD member countries, however, studies on the gender wage gap have been mainly attempted to explain in terms of the structure of the labor market, government policies, etc. This study focus on the characteristics of CEO and HR systems among the characteristics of organizations affecting the gender wage gap. The management philosophy sets the direction of organizational decision-making and activates the system. In addition, the HR system enables fair and objective organizational management for members through rules and procedures. However, even in organizations seeking rationalization, minority people may experience discrimination. Moreover, the rational HR system may act as a mechanism to justify discrimination, contrary to existing intentions. This study proposes that in order for the rational HR system to work positively, it must be based on the management philosophy. In other words, it is intended to derive a mechanism that can alleviate the gender wage gap from the integrated perspective of the characteristics of the CEO and the rational HR system. In particular, it aims to provide specific implications for how the organization should operate the HR system by examining the gender wage gap based on internal factors of companies that utilize manpower.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.119-134
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• 2012

This paper examines the shift to service economy in the developed countries including Korea and analyzes whether Baumol's cost disease hypothesis could explain the labor productivity growth in the developed countries even though the share of service industry is rising rapidly. We have found the following results: First, the shift to service economy is widely observed in the developed countries. Second, the productivity gap between manufacturing and service industry is widening as a result of stagnant productivity growth in service industry. Third, however, the productivity in the whole economy is still growing because of the large productivity differences among the sub-industries in service industry. Fourth, we have found that the productivities of some service industries, such as finance, communication, business service, etc., are almost same or larger than the productivity of manufacturing industry. From this fact it is likely that the productivity of the whole economy could grow in spite of the stagnant productivity growth in service industry.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.371-375
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• 2009

국내에서는 수자원 관리 지표에 관한 연구가 부분적으로 이루어지고 있으나, 지표를 통하여 정책목표를 설정하고 정책의 성과를 평가하는 데까지 이르지 못하고 있다. 본 연구는 우리나라의 이수분야 수자원 정책을 종합적이고 객관적으로 평가할 수 있는 지표를 개발하고 이를 국가단위, 유역단위, 지역단위에서 적용하기 위한 것이다. 이수 분야의 핵심지표를 선정하기 위해서 이수분야의 정책목표를 기준으로 4가지로 구분하고, 이를 정량적으로 제시하고 평가할 수 있는 지표에 대해서 검토하였다. 이수분야의 4가지 영역은 안정성, 효율성, 형평성과 지속가능성으로 구분하였다. 안정성은 강수, 기후변화, 인구, 경제, 사회 등 장래 환경이 불확실한 상황에서도 안정적으로 물 부족에 대응할 수 있는 능력이 확보되는 것을 말한다. 효율성은 물의 사용량과 누수율을 줄이고, 생산성과 재이용률을 제고하며, 물관리의 건전한 재정을 확보하기 위해서 비용회수체계를 개선하는 것 등을 포함한다. 형평성은 도시와 농촌, 지역간 물이용의 격차, 요금의 격차, 지역간 물자급률의 격차 등을 개선하여 사회적 약자나 소외계층의 물이용 능력을 높이는 것을 주요한 내용으로 한다. 지속가능성은 하천환경의 기능을 훼손하지 않는 범위 내에서 수자원을 이용하고, 환경 개선, 생태계 보존, 친수활동 등에 대한 물수요에 대응하는 것이다. 최종적으로 선정된 이수분야의 지표는 가뭄시 물부족량, 물부족 지역 비율, 국가 물자급률, 하천취수율, 환경용량 확보율, 물이용 공평성, 물재정 건전성 등 7개였다. 각 지표별로 지표의 정의와 산정방법 등을 제시하고, 지표를 통하여 이수분야의 수자원 정책을 평가하였다. 평가는 먼저, 국가간 비교를 하였고, 다음으로 국내의 유역간 비교, 지역간 비교의 순으로 진행하였다. 평가 결과 우리나라의 국가 물자급률과 취수율이 보통수준 이하로 매우 취약하고, 물이용의 공평성과 물관리 재정 건전성은 보통보다는 높은 수준으로 평가되었다. 평가 결과를 통해서 중장기 수자원 관리 정책의 목표를 정량적으로 제시하고, 분야별 정책 추진방향을 제안하였다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.133-138
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• 2020

The ability to use ICT is now a prerequisite for living in the information age, and digital literacy, which can access and utilize various digital information such as online banking, shopping, news, and health care, is more important. It is increasing. Accordingly, the social inequality, or digital divide, related to accessing and accepting digital information and knowledge is also an important social issue. In particular, the digital divide by age is becoming a major issue, not only in terms of resolving social imbalances but also in resolving the structural problems of the economy in addition to the survival of the elderly. This study aims to find ways to resolve the digital gap of the elderly in terms of socioemotional selectivity theory and suggests the reasons for the elderly's less access to digital information acquisition and the implications for the solution.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.285-292
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• 2018

Though the latest ICT technology is expected to serve as a bridgehead for future industrial development as the core of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the gap in ICT technology is still directly connected to the disparity in wealth and it is widening. Training to foster female ICT capabilities in developing countries is an opportunity to foster quality workforce for national development and a means to close the technology gap. The study aims to investigate the status of infrastructure and ICT education at UHP University in Indonesia, as a preparation for educating students in developing countries with ICT skills. Based on this survey, we develop appropriate ICT education contents for female students and provide necessary policies for ongoing education. We will seek ways to improve efficiency in education by comparing and analyzing the results of the previous research, Life University survey.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.73-81
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• 2017

The use of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) is closely related to the improvement of health and quality of life in later life. The elderly in general, however, face difficulty in adapting to ICT. The purpose of this study is to examine the social disparities and determinants in the use of information of the elderly residing in seoul. The data is based on the "2015-2016 Seoul Survey on Elderly Health and Functional Assessment", which include a total of 1,605 people aged 60 to 89. The results of multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the older, women, the lower educated, and those with restricted activity or poorer health were found to be the significant determinants of the digital poverty among older people. The results call for special attention to disparity within the older group to solve digital divide issues.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.237-255
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• 2020

Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This study clarified if there is Pareto principle in Korean universities' academic information resource sharing network and calculates the Gini efficient about inequality in sharing academic resources. As a result, top 20% libraries led 80% of performance and inequality degree showed 0.8 as very serious condition. Relative Gini efficient which is recalculated considering scale of each libraries stay 0.7 that is adjusted slightly down. It means that such phenomenon is not caused by the difference of each universities scale with high contribution of big university and low contribution of small university. And in comparison of inequality between university's types, inequality between community colleges and private universities is more serious than four-year-course college and national university respectfully. Finally, as a result of visualizing the distribution of participating libraries, there were libraries with overwhelming contributions, and libraries with small but relatively high contribution levels were also distributed.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.145-169
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• 2017

Female plays an important role in new welfare policies as emerging new social risks including care needs resulted from increasing female employment participation and changes in family structures. Whereas the effects of work and life reconciliation policies on female employment are well established, less is known for the role of production regime as an important institution on gender wage gap. This study examines the questions in what way and to what extent production regimes and work and family reconciliation policies influence gender wage gap in advanced capitalism countries using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). The coordinated market economies (CMEs), presented as higher firm-specific skills, are associated with lower income rank for female workers than male workers, hence larger degree of gender wage gap. Longer parental leave weeks and higher childcare expenditures are associated with less degree of gender wage gap. This research highlights the importance of production regimes in understanding gender wage gap and potential interaction between production regimes and work and life reconciliation policies on gender wage gap.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.56 no.4
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• pp.377-397
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• 2022

The number of public libraries in Korea has been increasing. However, the focus was on quantitative growth, while it did not have much interests in whether its growth trend are have deviations by region, and if that is a fact, what factors caused such a disparity. For this reason, this study analyzes spatial distribution of public libraries in Korea and its affecting factors of regional gap. As a result, public libraries are constantly distributing in the metropolitan area and the distribution of public libraries showed deviations by region. The results of analysis regarding the determinants of public libraries distribution, rate of population growth, the number of businesses and financial independence rate are found to have a positive effect but local taxes per capita are not. Especially economic power of region and financial ability of a local government are key factors of regional disparity. It shows empirically that the supply of public libraries has been determined by the convenience of suppliers.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.55 no.2
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• pp.219-242
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• 2024

This study examined the output performance of papers published in international journals in the LIS field over the past 20 years and used the Gini coefficient and Hirschman-Herfindahl (HHI) index to understand the international gap in academic paper output and its changes. In addition, the characteristics of academic publications were visualized focusing on the top producing countries of academic papers, and differences according to sub-research areas were also identified. As a result of the analysis, first, although the United States and China are leading the publication of papers over the past five years, the results produced by the Netherlands showed relatively high influence and international and industrial cooperation results. Second, a high inter-country gap index (g= 0.7-0.8) has been maintained in terms of paper production and citation volume over the past 20 years, but the concentration of top countries is showing a trend of easing over time, as CR3 (Concentration Ration 3) decreased from 63.3% to 43.2%, HHI decreased from 2,129.6 to 976.1. Third, the LS field showed the highest gap between countries and a high degree of concentration centered on the United States, while the SM field was confirmed to be the most dispersed.