• 경영과정보연구
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• 제13권
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• pp.141-162
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• 2003

This article discusses the issues of the estimated size and characteristics of irregular employment work force in Korea after IMF economic crisis in 1997. The issues of the estimated size of irregular employment work force originated from different concepts and its operationalizations among the labor economists, despite their utilization of the same labor force data, 'Economically Active Population Survey(EAPA)' collected from Korea National Statistical Office(KNSO). And the issues contribute toward the understandings of the irregular employment and the limits of the EAPA, despite its various usefulness. This article also describes the summary characteristics of irregular employment work force from both sides of labor supply and its demand. The major characteristics of irregular employment work force on the labor supply side appears in the concentration of social minorities, i.e. woman, the aged, lower educated and skilled populations. On the labor demand of irregular employment work force, the majority of it concentrated on the establishments under 10 employees, and probably the important incentives for irregular employment work force of the firms is labor cost efficiency. Finally, this article propose an alternative against the discrimination between the regular and irregular work force.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.45-112
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• 2002

Enhancing labor market flexibility is currently posted as one of the major economic policy objectives in Korea. However, the labor market effects of specific policies to achieve it have not been sufficiently investigated. This paper takes up the issue of employment protection deregulation and surveys and empirically analyzes its policy effects. Academic researches generally confirm that deregulation tends to promote labor turnover and employment of the disadvantaged groups such as the youth and female by raising the overall efficiency of the economy, but its effects on unemployment is not clear. In the Korean labor market, both job creation and destruction, and labor mobility have increased after the economic crisis of 1998, but they can not be seen as deregulation effects as the changes are confined to the temporary and daily employment whose labor markets are least regulated whereas the regular employment market remains virtally unchanged. Such results suggest that labor market deregulation need to be pursued consistently as a policy goal since the labor demand condition shift and the need for expanding regular employment necessitates it, for which detailed policy agenda for removing market inefficiencies should be carefully arranged.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.137-151
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• 2019

Using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study data, this paper estimates nominal wage rigidity in Korea by industry from 2005 to 2017 and evaluates the level of inefficiency of Korean labor market. And, after estimating employment volatility by industry using the Labor Force Survey at Establishments data for Korea, we combine the nominal wage rigidity and the employment volatility estimates and analyze the effect of nominal wage rigidity on employment volatility in Korea from 2011 to 2017. If the level of wage rigidity is high, it may be hard for the labor market to be in the equilibrium, and therefore, the market may have inefficiency. We find that the inefficiency of the labor market in Korea have increased from 2005 to 2017 and the industry of accommodation and food service activities has the highest level of inefficiency over the period. We also find that one-percent-point increase in wage rigidity increases employment volatility by 2.3-2.9 percent and the positive effect is bigger for workers with part-time and temporary jobs. The result implies that firms may adjust their labor costs by changing the number of casual workers, rather than permanent workers, when the labor market suffers from a high level of wage rigidity.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.237-245
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• 2008

China's agriculture is changing now, especially in terms of cash farming. Orange farming is one of the main cash crops. This study is to identify the labor utilization of orange farming of farm households in China. The Results are as follows. First, farm size increasing is an essential measure to save labor. Big farm requires less than 20% of labor inputs than that of average size farm. Second, in the aspect of the employment labor, while male labor accounted for the 5% of total labor, female employment labor took up much more, which amounts to almost half of family labor. Third, the average wage of men is almost twice as much as that of women's wage, and it is sharply increasing. Fourth, Chinese farm households put more labor input than Korean farm households in orange production, which is due to the substitution of capital for labor.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.283-293
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• 2021

To verify the employment impact of two-directional FDI, the study analyzes panel data composed of 26 OECD countries from 2006 to 2018 by using the system GMM. Furthermore, we decompose domestic employment into types of industries and skill compositions to identify the heterogeneous employment impact. The results show that inward and outward FDI at lag one period promote domestic employment at the overall level. In terms of workers' skill levels, lagged inward FDI significantly persistently promotes high-skilled workers' employment, likewise, the positive employment impact also appears with a time lag in low-skilled labor subgroups. Outward FDI, on the other hand, initially inhibits both high- and low-skilled labor demand, but then changes to a positive effect in the highskilled labor subgroups. Although there is a time difference between inward and outward FDI, it has a significant and positive impact on employment in the manufacturing and service industries. The results indicate that the relationship between manufacturing and service employment is a mutual substitute. To attract international investors, governments should promote a favorable investment climate and maintain stable economic growth. Because low-skilled labor is more susceptible to changes in FDI, policy measures are required to ensure employment stability.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.160-167
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• 2021

The authors of the article investigate the impact of digitalization on the forms change of employment and the labor market in the modern conditions. It is substantiated that digitalization processes directly affect the change of forms of employment and the range of occupations in the labor market, as well as the change of jobs. The positive and negative consequences of changing forms of employment for the economy in the process of digital transformation are analyzed, which include: reduction of personnel costs by employers; dissemination of non-standard, informal employment (electronic freelance, electronic outsourcing, start-employment); enabling employees to manage their working hours; increasing unemployment and imbalance of supply and demand in the labor market; reduction of productivity of enterprises, as a result of reduced productivity of workers with non-standard forms of employment, or with a negative indirect impact on productivity. A model for managing the process of digitalization in the labor market of Ukraine under different scenarios of their implementation, namely evolutionary and forced is devoted. To recognize the possible change in the level of employment in connection with the implementation of the forced scenario of digitalization in Ukraine, a model for estimating probable changes in the labor market is proposed. The directions of development of the state strategy of prevention of risks of reduction of number of workplaces in the course of digitalization are outlined.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.41-56
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• 2016

본 논문은 도시빈곤 이면에 중요하게 작용하는 노동시장과정으로서 일자리 및 공간적 미스매치의 실태를 고찰하고, 더 나아가 보다 효과적인 장소기반 노동시장적 개입이 고려해야 하는 지역노동시장의 지역성을 분석하였다. 광역대도시 지역노동시장의 성과로서 실업률의 변화는 노동력의 수요와 공급에 의한 불균형과 다양한 근로조건에 따른 미스매치의 역동적인 상호작용에 의해 결정되며, 그러한 결정과정도 지역노동시장에 따라 차별적임을 고찰하였다. 또한 우리나라의 대도시 고용 교외화 과정 속에서 공간적 미스매치가 인적자본 요구 수준과 취업기회의 산업선택적 특성을 통해 노동집단에 따라 차별적인 영향을 초래한다는 점도 분석되었다. 결과적으로 이 모든 과정은 개별 지역노동시장 내에서 고유한 과정을 통해 작동하는 바, 도시빈곤과 일자리 미스매치 등 노동시장 과정을 연계하고, 문제해결을 위한 노동시장적 개입을 추진함에 있어 노동시장의 장소성에 기반한 장소기반 정책이 필요하다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2020

Purpose - This paper examines how differently output and input tariffs affect domestic employment across industrial characteristics of comparative advantage such as labor quality and capital intensity. Design/methodology - The paper focuses on 453 Korean industries from 2007 to 2014 because Korea is a typical example of a natural resource-scarce open economy and experienced the transition of the export pattern from labor intensity to technology intensity during this period. Findings - The results show that input tariff reduction stimulated total employment, focusing on the early 2010s, while the effects of output tariff reduction were statistically insignificant in general. However, the stimulation effects of output tariff reduction on employment were found in comparative advantage industries with greater labor quality and capital intensity. As for input tariff reduction, its stimulation effects on employment were more prominent in comparative disadvantage industries with lower labor quality and capital intensity. Originality/value - These results provide significant implications for natural resource-scarce open economies which are experiencing the transition of the export pattern from labor intensity to technology intensity and the unequal distribution of income after trade liberalization: imported intermediate inputs has become increasing important, leading to trade effects on employment and alleviation of income inequality.

• 정보화정책
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.44-60
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• 2010

고용 없는 성장이 지속되는 가운데, IT가 고용에 미치는 영향에 대한 논란이 지속되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 2003년부터 2008년까지 총 6년간 국내의 매출액 1,000억 원 이상 498개 기업을 대상으로 IT투자가 노동수요에 미치는 영향을 실증분석 하였다. 본 연구결과, 일부 서비스업을 제외한 대부분의 산업에서 IT투자가 노동수요를 증대시키는 것으로 나타났다. 제조업의 경우 IT투자가 증가할수록 노동수요는 증가하나, IT투자에 따른 노동수요탄력성은 작아 IT투자는 저(低)숙련 노동과는 대체관계에 있고 고(高)숙련 노동과는 보완관계에 있는 것으로 나타났다. 전력 가스 및 건설업 역시 IT투자가 증가할수록 노동수요가 증가하며, IT투자에 따른 노동수요탄력성이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 서비스산업의 경우, 생산자 서비스업에서만 IT투자가 증가할수록 노동수요가 증가하였으며, IT투자에 따른 노동수요탄력성도 큰 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 유통 서비스업과 사회 서비스업에서는 IT투자와 노동수요 간에 유의한 관계가 발견되지 않았다.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.1-27
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• 2004

경제발전과 함께 하락추세를 보였던 취업 중 자영업이 차지하는 비중은 1990년대 들어 상승추세로 반전하였다. 고용주 비중이 상승추세를 유지하는 한 편, 남성 자영업 진출이 급속히 늘어난 데서 원인을 찾을 수 있다. 이는 자영업이 취업의 대안으로서 차지하는 위치와 특성, 그리고 역할이 변화하고 있음을 의미한다. 본 연구는 자영업이 임금근로에 대한 좋은 대안으로 역할을 하고 있으며, 노동시장 퇴장가교직이나 진입가교직이라는 양면에서 '자영업이 가교직으로 역할을 하는가?'에 대해 한국노동패널 조사자료를 이용하여 분석하고 있다. 연령이 높을수록, 여성일수록, 학력수준이 낮을수록, 건강 상태가 좋지 않을수록 퇴장가교직을 택할 확률은 높아지는 반면, 진입가교직을 선택할 확률은 낮아지는 것으로 나타난다. 경기변동은 퇴장가교직에만 통계적으로 유의한 부정적인 효과를 갖는다. 고령화 사회에서 은퇴를 앞둔 고연령자에 대한 노동정책은 고령화 적합직종이라는 효과가 적은 정책보다는 고령자를 노동시장으로 끌어들이되 이들의 경험과 노하우 및 경험과 자본을 바탕으로 하는 자영업을 주요 대안으로 고려하는 것이 바람직하다.