• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.57 no.2
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• pp.119-142
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to explore and describe of the reality of working poor in Korea. In spite of the increasing attention to the working poor, usual definitions of the working poor have some measurement questions. The definition of the working poor should focus on the key dimensions of work and poverty. This study defines working poor as all "persons who have devoted prior 6 months to working or looking for work and who lived in families with incomes below the poverty threshold". This study also defines poverty threshold based on the both concept of absolute and relative poverty. According to this definition, the working poor are almost equally divided between men and women and the majority of them are of prime working age. These characteristics of working poor are seems to be quite different from common sense. Also, serious deficiencies of human capital contribute to the employment problems of the working poor. Their education levels are much less than those of the working non-poor. The distributions of the employment status, occupation, and industry show also that the working poor are highly concentrated in a few low-wage jobs.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.52
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• pp.201-221
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• 2003

This paper aims to examine whether there are significant differences in various aspects of a household's arrangements by type of employment of married woman; 1) the extent of the division of labor, 2) the authority of decision making, and 3) financial and expenditure responsibilities. It also investigates the determinants of gender equality in the family. Based on data collected in the fall of 2002 from a representative sample of the Korean population, this study finds that nonstandard employment of married woman including temporary work and daily basis work does not contribute to gender equality within the household, although most of nonstandard employees are full-time workers. However, standard employment of married woman contribute to gender equality in the family. The results of this study show that husbands whose wives are standard-employed are more likely to take part in housework chores that are female-dominated, and standardly employed wives are more likely than non-standardly employed or housewives to take part in the household's financial and expenditure responsibilities. Standardly employed wives also have more power in decision making process within households. On the contrary, non-standardly employed wives gain no advantage over housewives within their families, due to lack of bargaining resources that enable them to affect the household's arrangements. Thus, they have confronted additional burdens, which stem from carrying the dual role of doing house work as well as paid work. Such increasing work-family conflict may bring about disruption of family. Therefore, this study maintains that it is high time that government-level efforts should be made in order to improve the status of irregularly employed wives in the workplace.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.494-502
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• 2017

This study examines how the Netherlands and Denmark lowered the increase in income inequality, at a period in time when income inequality in the world was deepening. This study investigates the level and trend of income inequality in the Netherlands and Denmark compared to those in Korea, the United States, Germany and Sweden. Using the method of the decomposition of changes in income inequality, this study identifies which factors are associated with the changes in inequality in these countries. It also explores which labor market policies mitigated inequality in these two countries. One of the major reasons for the reduction in earned income inequality in the Netherlands is the increased participation of women in economic activity through the increase in voluntary part-time working. In particular, the policies designed to promote equal treatment between full-time and non-regular workers contributed to the active participation of women in part-time work. Using active labor market policies, Denmark improved the proficiency of low skilled and low-wage workers, thereby alleviating the wage gap between high-income and low-income workers. Based on the experiences of the Netherlands and Denmark, this study discusses policy directions to mitigate income inequality in Korea.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.23-38
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• 1989

본고(本稿)에서는 원화표시수입물가지수(貨表示輸入物價指數) 및 단위노동비용(單位勞動費用) 등의 비용요인(費用要因)과 GNP디플레이터로 표시한 물가(物價)와의 관계를 공적분검증방법(共積分檢證方法)으로 살펴보았는데 단위노동비용(單位勞動費用)과 물가간(物價間)에는 유의한 장기적(長期的) 균형관계(均衡關係)가 존재하나 이 관계식(關係式)에 수입물가지수(輸入物價指數)를 추가하기는 곤란한 것으로 나타났으며 수입물가지수(輸入物價指數)와 물가간(物價間)에도 유의한 장기적(長期的) 균형관계(均衡關係)를 발견하지 못하였다. 이에 따라 공적분(共積分)과 오차수정모형(誤差修正模型)을 사용하여 단위노동비용(單位勞動費用)만으로 인플레식(式)을 추정(推定)한 결과 그 적합도가 뛰어난 것으로 나타났다. 추정결과(推定結果)에 의하면 단위노동비용상승(單位勞動費用上昇)의 물가(物價)에 대한 영향은 영구적이며 최조 2년반 동안에 최대로 나타날 뿐 아니라 과도조정(過度調整)(overshooting)현상(現象)이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이에 따라 비록 90년도의 임금인상(賃金引上)이 상당폭 둔화(鈍化)된다 하더라도 87년 하반기부터 시작된 단위노동비용급증(單位勞動費用急增)의 누적적 효과로 인하여 90년의 상당히 높은 인플레율은 불가피할 것으로 전망되었다. 마지막으로 이와 같은 물가상승압력(物價上昇壓力)을 완화하기 위해서 정책입안자(政策立案者)의 입장에서 본고(本稿)의 연구결과(硏究結果)에 대해 어떠한 해석이 가능한가를 논의하였는데, 정부(政府)의 정책입안자(政策立案者), 기업가(企業家) 및 근로자(勤勞者) 등 각(各) 경제주체(經濟主體)의 단합된 공동노력(共同努力)이 요구되는 것으로 지적되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.273-282
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• 1997

본 연구는 Pelzman and Martic (1981)의 불균형 국내 산출 방정식(disequilibrium domestic output equation)을 이용하여 수입 섬유 및 의류 제품이 미국 내에서 생산되는 섬유 및 의류 제품의 생산량에 미치는 영향을 통계적으로 분석하였다. 불균형 국내 산출 방정식에서 Pelzman and Martin (1981)은 특정 기간 동안 미국 내의 생산량은 7가지의 변수 즉, (1) 생산 근로자의 평균시간 임금, (2)자본의 사용 가격, (3) 수입품의 비교 가격, (4) 실질 여유 소득, (5) 섬유 및 의류제품의 국내 가격, (6) 섬유 및 의류 제품의 재고량, (7)섬유 및 의류 제품의 수입량에 의해 영향을 받는다고 가정하였다. 그러나 불균형 국내 산출 방정식을 만족하는 정부 기관의 통계자료가 다 없기 때문에 수정된 국내 산출 방정식을 만들어서 분석하였다. 이 수정된 국내 산출 방정식을 이용하여 수입 섬유 및 의류 제품이 미국 내에서 생산되는 섬유 및 의류 제품의 생산량에 미치는 영향을 통계적으로 처리하여 그 결과를 분석하였다. 그 분석된 결과로는 국내 의류 및 섬유 생산 수준은 재고 변화보다는 가격 변화에 더 민감하게 반응한다. 그리고 국내 의류 및 섬유 생산 수준은 수입 의류 및 섬유의 수입량과는 역관계이다. 이것은 수입 의류 및 섬유의 증가는 국내 의류 및 섬유 생산의 감소를 야기시킨다. 이 불균형 국내 산출 방정식이 다른 나라의 분석에도 유용할 것이다.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.139-154
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• 2018

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine factors influencing health-related quality of life of waged workers. Methods: This study used data from the Seventh Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Data were analyzed with the $x^2-test$, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Results: The significant predictors of health-related quality of life were depression, subjective health status, age, activity limitation, education, worker status, monthly income, drinking, smoking, physical injury, stress, and moderate physical activity. Conclusions: Personal health characteristics, psychological characteristics, socioeconomic characetrictics and working characetrictics affect health-related quality of life. Health-related quality of life is also affected by social structural problems such as socioeconomic factors and employment instabilitye. In addition to the development of health care programs to improve health-related quality of life of twaged workers, policy changes are needed to improve the social structure.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.68 no.4
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• pp.97-118
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• 2016

The primary goal of this study was to investigate factors affecting job satisfaction of injured workers who returned to work. There are two types of injured workers' returning to work returning to pre-injury job and getting a new job. After separating the two types of workers we conducted the multiple regression analysis on the data from the Workers'Compensation Insurance Panel of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service Corporation(2014). The sample consisted of 1,333 occupationally injured workers who were finished with medical treatment(693 workers returned to previous work place, and 640 workers found new work places). Main results are as follows. First, injured workers who got new jobs were vulnerable to sustainability to job, work status, average monthly wage as well as job satisfaction compared with injured workers who returned to pre-injury job. Second, gender, educational level, skill fitness, average monthly wage, welfare benefits, family income/leisure life/residential environment/social relation satisfaction, and maintenance of relation with business owner during medical care were related to job satisfaction of injured workers who returned to pre-injury job. Third, gender, work status, skill fitness, continuous work possibility, average monthly wage, family income/leisure life/social relation satisfaction, substitute worker for assigned task during medical care and maintenance of relation with business owner during medical care affected on job satisfaction of injured workers who got new jobs. Based on these findings implications for policy and interventions were discussed in regards to job satisfaction of injured workers.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.383-393
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the condition of the production facilities of severely impaired products for two years from 2017 to 2018, and to suggest ways to improve the preferential purchase system for the severely disabled comparison with previous study. As of June 2018, 267 out of 544 sites were research and analyzed. As a result, first, the average number of severely disabled workers is 16.51, and the total number of workers, disabled workers who participated in direct production, and non-disabled workers showed the trend of increase in 2018. Second, the average monthly wage of workers with disabilities participating in direct production increased slightly from 790,977 won in 2017 to 829,810 won in 2018. Third, Analysis of changes in sales of production facilities before and after designations showed that overall sales of production facilities increased after designations and after designations. Improvement measures include preferential purchase rate improvement and support for production facilities and purchasing public institutions, classification of roles of performance organizations, Clarification of the role of priority purchasing promotion committee for products produced by people with severe disabilities, complementing the minimum wage exclusion system.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.181-207
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to conduct a dynamic analysis of married women's return to the workforce following first childbirth. We have based our investigation on the data compiled by the KLIPS, where the workforce performance is the focal point of it's research, and by these materials, this study has analyzed the aspects of the factors that decide post-childbirth return to the workforce. We have applied the Cox Regression Hazard Model, where corroborative evidence are statistically applied. The following are the conclusions that were derived from this research: First, according to the study, academic background is a vital factor in reducing the gap and time of women's return to the workforce. Second, whether having active child-care after giving birth or not doubles the chances of women returning to the workforce. Third, if the pre-birth employment form was a wage-work and the rate of returning to the workforce was lower than the non-wage, relatively speaking, this reflects that the non-wage form of work, which provides a better possibility to return to the workforce after giving birth, could be another way to prevent women's career discontinuation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.338-346
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• 2011

This study analyzes the turnover intention of social workers, then finds the way to lower the turnover intention. The survey result of the proportion of the respondents who have turnover intention appeared to be higher in the workers in use facilities and subordinate facilities. As for the reason of turnover intention, the proportion who answered 'poor working environment' and 'low wage level' appeared to be higher in the workers in life facilities and use facilities. As for the desired field of turnover, thus telling that they prefer to change jobs within the same field of social welfare rather than challenging new field. The result from this study suggests that, to lower the turnover intention of social workers, there should be more effort to increase wage level, reduce work hour, expand welfare benefit program and diversify self development and training programs.