• Journal of Families and Better Life
• /
• v.23 no.3 s.75
• /
• pp.153-167
• /
• 2005

This study was conducted to help develop women's human resources and promote married women's return to workforce. Using various data, we examined the patterns of Korean women's economic activities over the lifecycle, career discontinuation and return to the workforce. We also interviewed twenty full-time housewives who wanted to return to workforce. The interview questions included reasons for seeking employment, desired working conditions, and difficulties in finding a job. Major findings are as follows: First, there were two groups with respect to reasons why they want employment One was an economic need such as earning basic living expenses and supporting the family. The other was self-realization and social participation. Second most women wanted to do unskilled labor such as housekeeping work, whereas some young or well-educated women looked for a professional job. Third, married women preferred part-time jobs, which were compatible with their family care demands. Most of them wanted a workplace located close to home. The women with child-care responsibility preferred working at home. Fourth, regarding difficulties of returning to workforce, they pointed out vocational ability problems due to their career discontinuation, social prejudice such as gender discrimination and psychological pressure in maintaining work and family at the same time. In order to promote employment of married women, it is required not only to change social prejudices but also to increase effectiveness in policy implementation. In addition, counseling for job-search and vocational ability training programs should be provide.

• Economic Analysis
• /
• v.25 no.4
• /
• pp.1-24
• /
• 2019

This study examines the labor market performance of graduates who had student loans. Compared to earlier studies, we extended analyses to all jobs that were experienced for more than 18 months after graduation. First, we found that students who had student loans earned 2.81% less at their first job compared to their counterparts without student loans. Second, the wage gap decreased over time, a reduction of 0.66%p due to labor market turnovers. Third, when we compared cumulated labor income, however, the amount for borrowers were continuously higher. This is because the job searching period of a borrower was shorter, despite relatively lower wages at the first job, and borrowers also made more frequent job turnovers, accompanying relatively more wage increases. These results suggest that the negative effects of college loans on earnings, reported in previous studies, may have exaggerated the negative impact to some extent of having loans. However, when we look at the quality of jobs beyond simply wages, the proportion of borrowers working at large companies as regular workers was consistently low. Given that job conditions at the earlier stages of one's career may lead to gaps over time, our findings call for more systematic investigations into the effects that student loans have on long-term labor performance.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
• /
• v.57 no.2
• /
• pp.375-403
• /
• 2005

This Study reviews theoretical argument about the effect of retirement earnings test on the labor supply of the aged which is controversial issue in OECD countries and analyze the effect on the incidence of re-employment, re-employment period of suspended officials and the possibility of re-retirement through Government Employment Pension Corporation data. It consists of 178,363 public officials who received pension benefit or disability pension in January 2005. The main result of this research shows that public officials re-employed were 8,086 which is 4.5% of total retired, and median survival time of suspended pension payments is 3.3 years. Also the median re-employment period of 100% suspended officials is about 20 month shorter than that of 1/2 suspended officials and it is shown in regression analysis that the possibility of re-retirement by 100% suspended officials is statistically significant higher than those of 50%. It specially expects greater influence if includes in case taking lump-sum or no making effect of re-employment because current system withhold pension payments even by earned income itself. Therefore, this analysis suggests suspension of pension payment properly applied according to the age and income together with "Delayed Retirement Credit" or "Partial Pension" for developmental alternatives of civil servant's suspension of pension payments. Furthermore, It is urgently needed that distinctive quality data about re-employment including earnings to perform deep-empirical research for effective policy. Lastly, it is extremely necessary to reinforce management system of Government Employment Pension Corporation.

• Journal of Labour Economics
• /
• v.24 no.1
• /
• pp.207-230
• /
• 2001

This paper uses the Korean Labor Panel data to investigate changes in the employment types of male workers following their job changes with the classification of workers into three categories: regular wage workers, non-regular wage workers, and self-employed workers. It also estimates a competing-risks hazard model to analyze the determinants of employment types of workers. The results show that the type of employment of a worker at an immediate previous job has a critical importance in determining his employment type at a new job and that the types of employment at jobs other than the immediate previous job also play some role in determining the type of employment at a new job, although their impact declines as the number of intervening jobs increases. A job loser, who worked as a non-regular worker at his immediate previous job, for example, is considerably less likely to find a regular job, but more likely to get reemployed at another non-regular job than one who worked as a regular worker at his immediate previous job. Similarly, a worker who quit self-employment is much less likely to find a regular job but more likely to restart his own business than one who worked as a regular worker at his immediate previous job. These findings suggest that it is not easy at all for a worker who worked as either a non-regular worker or self-employed worker to become a regular worker, although it might be premature to assert that non-regular jobs or self-employed jobs are dead-end jobs. Another interesting finding of this analysis is that a high unemployment rate lowers a probability of reemployment at either regular jobs or self-employed jobs, but raises a non-regular job reemployment probability, which strongly implies that as labor market conditions become adverse to workers the proportion of non-regular employment can rise rapidly.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
• /
• v.69 no.3
• /
• pp.193-212
• /
• 2017

This study is purposed to explain the characteristics of injured workers' labor market situation and to analyze the factors influencing labor market transition of those workers. Using the Worker's Compensation Insurance Panel Data ver.1~3 which was surveyed by the Korean Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service in 2013-2015, this study analyzed 1,668 injured worker cases. The study shows that workers who have experience job retention at least once are 36.8% of all, 51.5% of them have experienced re-employment, and 36.9% have done unemployment. One result of the longitudinal analysis is that socio-demographic factors including gender, age, education years, convalescence period, ability on job performance, company size, term of service, temporary employment, daily-workers status before job accident and job training were associated with return to pre-injury job. The other result is that statistically significant factors affecting the probability to be the unemployed are gender, age, levels of disability, convalescence, ability on job performance, term of service before job accident, job rehabilitation service utilization. These findings indicate that we need to develop efficient intervention programs for supporting return-to-work and labor market transition of injured workers.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
• /
• v.38 no.5
• /
• pp.768-778
• /
• 2008

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the re-employment process of inactivated nurses returning to the nursing field and to develop a grounded theory about their re-employment experiences. Methods: Data was collected through a face-to-face interview and telephone interviews from 10 nurses. The ground theory methodology of Strauss and Corbin (1998) was used for theoretical sampling in accordance with their unemployment period and reason for leaving prior to reemployment; whereas works of data collection and analysis were performed concurrently. Results: The core category was discovered to be 'identifying a career path by striking a balance between the practical and the ideal'. This series of processes was categorized into five stages: 'trying to get a job again', 'tolerating difficulties as a beginner', 'trying their best to remain a nurse', 'trying to get another job', and 'staying in the profession till the end'. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest an understanding and profound insight on the issue of a nursing shortage.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
• /
• v.18 no.7
• /
• pp.138-152
• /
• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate that effect of the social support to individual desire of reemployment and satisfaction to reemployed works of career interrupted women. We surveyed about 400 career interrupted women living in Seoul who quit their job within 3 years, analyzed collected data with empirical analysis, and applied structural equation analysis to verify the assumed model for this study. The results of this study showed that social supports influence career interrupted women's individual desire of reemployment, satisfaction to their work, and self-esteem. And the results also showed that the desire of reemployment performs a parametric role between social supports and satisfaction of reemployment. As a consequence, this study showed importance of social supports to reemployment of career interrupted women and satisfaction to their reemployment, therefore, can be helpful to build public policies to promote social manage of women resources.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
• /
• v.34 no.4
• /
• pp.157-188
• /
• 2012

We study the relationship between the closedness of public service recruitment system and the corruption rampant between private firms and public servants. Empirically we test our claim that the closedness of public service recruitment system tends to heighten the corruption level of each country. Our results show that the closedness is positively correlated with bureaucracy corruption levels indexed by IMD, WEF, and World Bank.

• Journal of Teachers' Pension
• /
• v.5
• /
• pp.11-50
• /
• 2020

본 연구는 폐교로 인한 연금수급자가 근로소득 또는 사업소득 등 추가적인 소득이 발생할 경우에 기존 소득심사제도와 동일하게 적용을 하고 있는 현행 제도의 문제점을 지적하고 이에 대한 개선안을 제시하고자 한다. 폐교로 인한 퇴직연금수급자가 사학기관에 재취업을 하게 되면 연금은 전액 정지되지만, 일반 국민연금 가입기관에 재취업을 하게 되면 일반적인 소득심사를 적용받게 된다. 폐교에 따른 연금을 수령하는 연령층 중에는 일부 젊은 층도 포함되고 있어 근로활동이 왕성한 시기임에도 불구하고 연금을 수령하고 있어 결과적으로 사학연금 재정에 막대한 영향을 미치고 있다. 이러한 상황을 감안하여 재취업의 대상 기관에 따라 차별화되고 있는 현행 폐교 연금수급자의 지급정지에 대한 법 적용을 동일하게 적용할 여지가 있다고 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 다음과 같은 개선방안을 제시하였다. 첫째, 폐교로 인하여 퇴직할 경우에는 연금을 조기에 수령하게 되는데, 연금제도는 본래 은퇴 후의 소득을 보장받기 위한 것이나 현행 폐교로 인한 연금 지급은 근로가 가능한 젊은 층일 경우에도 지급하고 있어 추가적인 소득이 발생할 경우에는 퇴직소득심사제를 더욱 강화하여야 한다. 둘째, 연금 지급액보다 높은 추가 소득이 발생할 경우 또는 공무원 평균연금월액을 초과하는 경우에는 연금을 전액 또는 반액 정지하는 방안을 모색하여야 한다. 셋째, 연금재정의 안정화를 위하여 폐교로 인하여 연금을 수령하고 있는 수급자에 대하여는 현행보다 강화된 소득심사제를 적용하여야 한다. 본 연구는 최근 폐교로 인한 연금수급자가 증가하고 있는 상황하에서 퇴직소득심사제에 대한 개선안을 모색해보았다는 점에서 의의가 있다고 할 수 있다. 폐교로 인한 연금지급액은 해마다 급증하고 있는 추세에 있으며, 이로 인해 연금재정 소요액은 더욱 증가할 것으로 예상되고 있고 연금재정의 악화요인으로 작용하고 있다. 그러므로 폐교로 인한 연금을 수령 시에는 현행보다 강화된 소득심사의 적용이 필요하다고 본다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.25 no.8
• /
• pp.1019-1025
• /
• 2021

Support policies such as education and training for re-employment of career-interrupted women are being implemented, but they are not being effectively employed. In addition, it is difficult for women with high educational background to re-enter, such as having to revise their previous careers or plan a new career for re-employment. In the previous studies, there was insufficient research to solve fundamental problems for re-employment, such as promising jobs with high employment opportunities. Therefore, when developing a curriculum for women with career interruptions, it was felt the need to select educational occupations that would be helpful in finding employment by age and educational background of the trainees. In this study, data on vocational training education of women with career interruptions were used to analyze the educational occupations with the highest employment rate by age and educational background.