• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.145-156
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• 2015

Incorporation of individual learning and forgetting behaviors within worker-task assignment models produces a mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP) problem, which is difficult to solve as a NP hard due to its nonlinearity in the objective function. Previous studies commonly assume homogeneity among workers in workforce scheduling that takes account of learning and forgetting characteristics. This paper expands previous researches by considering heterogeneous individual learning/forgetting, and investigates the impact of worker heterogeneity in initial expertise, steady-state productivity, learning and forgetting on system performance to assist manager's decision-making in worker-task assignments without tackling complex MINLP models. In order to understand the performance implications of workforce heterogeneity, this paper examines analytically how heterogeneity in each of the four parameters of the exponential learning and forgetting (L/F) model affects system performance in three cases : consecutive assignments with no break, n breaks of s-length each, and total b break-periods occurred over T periods. The study presents the direction of change in worker performance under different assignment schedules as the variance in initial expertise, steady-state productivity, learning or forgetting increases. Thus, it implies whether having more heterogenous workforce in terms of each of four parameters in the L/F model is desired or not in different schedules from the perspective of system productivity measurement.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.1-31
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• 2007

본 연구는, 비정규 근로에 대한 차별처우의 문제를 실증적으로 분석하여, 고용형태에 따른 임금격차에 대한 객관적 사실들을 제시함으로써, 비정규 근로에 대한 논의를 보다 생산적이게 하는 데에 기여하고자 한다. 비정규 근로의 임금수준은 2005년에 정규 근로의 63%에 불과하여 37%의 임금격차가 존재한다. 그러나 이는 근로시간, 인적자본의 양, 직무의 성격, 그리고 개인의 능력 등을 전혀 고려하지 않은 것이다. 근로시간만 추가로 감안하더라도 임금격차는 29%로 감소한다. 근로자들의 인적특성, 인적자본, 사업체 규모, 노동조합 등 분석에 전통적으로 사용되는 변수들 대부분을 통제하면 임금격차는 2.7%로 급감한다. 직무까지 추가로 통제할 경우, 임금격차는 다시 2.2%로 줄어든다. 이 가운데 생산성에 의한 임금격차가, Oaxaca 방법으로 분해하면, 91%를 차지한다. 이는 차별처우의 최대치가 정규 근로 시간당 임금의 0.2%에 불과함을 의미한다. 나아가 개개인의 능력을 비롯한 미관측 이질성까지도 추가로 통제하기 위해 패널자료를 구축하고 고정효과 모형을 사용하여 추정 할 경우, 비정규 근로의 시간당 임금은 정규 근로의 경우와 의미 있는 차이를 보이지 않거나 오히려 다소 높게 나타난다. 이러한 결과는 경제이론으로 쉽게 설명된다. 다른 상황이 동일하다면 근로자들은 고용이 보다 불안한 비정규 근로로 노동을 공급할 경우 이에 대한 보상으로 보다 높은 임금을 받으려 할 것이다. 기업들은 추가로 고용유연성을 확보할 경우 보다 높은 임금을 지급할 용의가 있다. 따라서 비정규 근로가 정규 근로에 비해 보다 불안한 고용과 보다 높은 임금을 가지는 균형이 성립될 수 있다. 이상의 결과는 비정규 근로 문제를 차별처우의 차원에서 접근하는 시각에 매우 회의적이며, 비정규 근로에 대한 논의의 방향을 수정할 것을 함축하고 있다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2010

Objectives: We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the relationship between low external doses of ionizing radiation exposure and the risk of cancer mortality among nuclear power plant workers. Methods: We searched MEDLINE using key words related to low dose and cancer risk. The selected articles were restricted to those written in English from 1990 to January 2009. We excluded those studies with no fit to the selection criteria and we included the cited references in published articles to minimize publication bias. Through this process, a total of 11 epidemiologic studies were finally included. A publication bias was tested for using Egger's test. The homogeneity test was performed before the integration of each of the standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and the result proved that the studies were heterogeneous. Results: We found significant decreased deaths from all cancers (SMR = 0.75, 95% CI = 0.62 - 0.90), all cancers excluding leukemia, solid cancer, mouth and pharynx, esophagus, stomach, rectum, liver and gallbladder, pancreas, lung, prostate, lymphopoietic and hematopoitic cancer. The findings of this meta-analysis were similar with those of the 15 Country Collaborative Study conducted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A publication bias was found only for liver and gallbladder cancer (p = 0.015). Heterogeneity was observed for all cancers, all cancers excluding leukemia, solid cancer, esophagus, colon and lung cancer. Conclusions: Our findings of low mortality for stomach, rectum, liver and gallbladder cancers may explained by the health worker effect. Yet further studies are needed to clarify the low SMR of cancers, for which there is no useful screening tool, in nuclear power plant workers.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2020

One of the key features of a mobile crowd-sensing (MCS) system is task allocation, which aims to recruit workers efficiently to carry out the tasks. Due to various constraints of the tasks (such as specific sensor requirement and a probabilistic guarantee of task completion) and workers heterogeneity, the task allocation become challenging. This assignment problem becomes more intractable because of the deadline of the tasks and a lot of possible task completion order or moving path of workers since a worker may perform multiple tasks and need to physically visit the tasks venues to complete the tasks. Therefore, in this paper, a hybrid search algorithm for task allocation called HST is proposed to address the problem, which employ a traveling salesman problem heuristic to find the task completion order. HST is developed based on the tabu search algorithm and exploits the premature convergence avoiding concepts from the genetic algorithm and simulated annealing. The experimental results verify that our proposed scheme outperforms the existing methods while satisfying given constraints.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.1114-1121
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• 2022

Construction laborers and crews play a critical role in achieving a safe and productive construction site. Many past research studies used top-down approaches/perspectives for studying the impact of laborers' performance on overall construction site outputs with limited flexibility in accounting for laborers' various characteristics. However, the recent reap in computational advances allowed applications of bottom-up architectures, which can potentially incorporate heterogeneous characteristics of laborers' individual behavioral and decision-making features effectively. Accordingly, agent-based modeling (ABM), as a tool to leverage a bottom-up methodological approach, has been widely adopted by recent research. Existing literature investigated the influence of changes in laborers' behaviors and interactions on either construction sites' safety performance or productivity performance individually, leaving the tradeoff between safety and productivity in this context relatively unexplored. Accordingly, this study aims to develop an agent-based framework to study the tradeoff between project safety and productivity performances resulting from changes in laborers' behaviors after attending safety trainings. Our findings via simulations indicate that proper safety trainings can improve safety performance without negatively impacting productivity performance.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate the unintended welfare losses induced by paid sick leave, examine the severity of the unintended moral hazard loss caused by paid sick leave, and evaluate how much moral hazard cost society can accept to obtain paid sick leave benefits. Research Design, Data and Methodology: We examine the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data collected in 2013 and 2014 by employing a panel probit analysis to control for individual heterogeneity. Results: The estimation result shows that the probability of absence due to paid sick leave increases from 4.91% to 7.84%. Among them, excluding the probability of increasing absence from 1.29% to 2.69% due to the actual disease, the probability of absence due to the moral hazard was estimated to be 2.41% to 6.49% in the proposed models. Based on the result, if we evaluate the increase in absence caused by moral hazard as a social cost, the estimated cost is approximately $174 to $297 per worker per year. Conclusion: Considering these expected costs, our society can obtain the access benefit from paid sick leave if we are willing to accept the moral hazard cost.

• 지역연구
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.3-20
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• 2022

본 연구는 폭염 등 기후변화의 영향에 가장 취약할 수 있는 실외근로자에 초점을 맞춰 실외노동에 대한 보상적 임금격차가 지역별 그리고 분위별로 어떻게 다른지 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구에서는 근로자 개인 수준의 일반 특성과 작업 환경에 대한 정보를 제공하는 「근로환경조사」 자료를 이용하여 Oaxaca-Blinder 분해, 무조건분위회귀 분석, 권역별 다중회귀분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과에 따르면, 대부분의 임금 결정요인의 경우 자원효과와 가격효과가 실내근로자에게 더 큰 것으로 나타났으나, 경력과 성별 특성의 경우 실외근로자의 임금을 상승시키는 효과가 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 또한 임금 분위가 높을수록 실외근로자에 대한 금전적 보상이 커지며, 하위 분위에서는 통계적으로 유의한 보상적 임금격차가 확인되지 않는 경우도 있었다. 전국적으로 실외근로자에 대한 보상적 임금격차는 2.4%인 것으로 나타났으나, 권역에 따라 보상적 임금격차의 크기에는 차이가 있었다. 본 연구는 실외노동에 대한 보상적 임금격차의 지역별 및 분위별 이질성을 확인하였다는 점에 연구의 의의가 있다.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.1-34
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• 2002

본 연구는 법정근로시간 단축이 성장률, 투자, 소비, 고용 등 제 경제변수들에 주는 영향을 분석한다. 본 연구는 기본 분석모형으로서 Hansen(1985)과 Rogerson(1988)에 의해 개발된 비가분성(indivisible) 노동 모형을 사용하나 노동생산성 면에서의 근로자들의 이질성을 명시적으로 고려함으로써 그들의 모형을 확장하였다. 경제활동인구 조사와 도시가계 조사 데이터로 연결 패널자료를 구성하여 기존 근로자와 근로시간 단축에 의해 새로 고용되는 근로자 두 집단 사이에 존재하는 효율파라미터 값을 추정하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 장기적인 균제 상태를 비교 분석해 본 결과 법정근로시간이 44시간에서 40시간으로 단축될 경우, 추가로 고용되는 근로자는 기존 근로자 생산성의 약 95%이며 고용은 약 4.9% 증가하는 것으로 나타난다. 그러나 새로운 균제 상태에서는 이는 법정근로시간의 단축에 따른 경제 전체 근로자의 실(actual) 평균근로시간의 감소와 신규 근로자의 유입에 의한 평균노동생산성 감소로 유효노동량이 2.03% 감소하기 때문이다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.153-170
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• 2020

Purpose - As the US-China trade war intensifies and lasts long time, there is growing concern about its potential effects on the global economy. In particular, for the countries like Korea that have a large economic dependence on the economy of the two countries, the US-China trade war may have a great repercussion in many ways. The aim of this paper is to investigate the global productivity and market structure implications of the US-China trade war for Korea, as well as for other surrounding countries and regions. Design/methodology - In this paper, we develop a full multi-country/region multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of global trade incorporating heterogeneous workers and firms in individual skill levels and used technologies. We then calibrate the model using a global Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) dataset extracted from the recently released GTAP 10 Database, and assess the potential effects of the US-China trade war on the aggregate real productivity and the market structure for Korea, as well as for other surrounding countries and regions. Findings - We show that the US-China trade war may largely affect the aggregate productivity in each sector in each country/region, as well as the global market structure through entry and exit of firms, which results finally in considerable changes in the industrial comparative advantage of each country/region. Though the effects are diverse sector by sector, the results show that Korea may also be affected significantly: concerning the real productivity implications, it is shown that the machinery industry may be affected the most negatively; on the other hand, it is shown that the number of exporting firms may decrease the most in the other transports industry. Originality/value - As the US-China trade war intensifies, many studies have tried to estimate the possible implications, and for this usually the CGE models have largely been used as the standard tool for evaluating the impacts of changes in trade policies. Standard CGE models, however, cannot be used to assess the global productivity and market structure implications due to the symmetric and simplified base assumptions. This paper is the first to analyze and quantify the possible impacts of the US-China trade war on the aggregate productivity and global market structure using a CGE model incorporating endogenous skill-technology assignment of heterogeneous workers and firms.