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Labour Policy of Moon Jae-in Administration : Evaluation and Prospect (문재인정부 노동정책 1년 : 평가와 전망)

  • Roh, Joongkee
    • Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.1-28
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    • 2018
  • Now labour policy of Moon Jae-in Administration is very different from the labour reform politics of the past ages in its structural conditions. Especially the difference is in the fact that the new labour policy is originated from the Candlelight Revolution in 2016 which has resisted to the 20years-long neoliberal domination. This kind of change in the political situation made a optimistic prediction with regard to the possibility of successful labour reform. However the future is in many points so uncertain that we could not confirm the success of labour reform at all. The uncertainty always resides in the structural unbalance between labour movement power and capitalist state power bloc in Korea. In this sense strategical orientation and practices of the democratic labour movement(KCTU) are very critical to produce some positive outcomes.

Why Women Remain Outsiders: A Comparative Study of Labour Market in Korea and Japan (여성은 왜 외부자로 남아 있는가?: 한국과 일본의 여성노동시장 비교연구)

  • Lee, Sophia Seung-yoon;AN, Juyoung;Kim, Yuhwi
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.201-237
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    • 2016
  • This paper focuses on Korean and Japanese female workers participating in the outside (secondary) labour market, especially with an attention given to two aspects. First, we explain how females are 'more outsiders' than males in the labour market. Secondly, we investigate M-shape in the female labour market participation by focusing on different proportion of non-standard worker. Then, in order to explain why women keep on being more concentrated in the outer side of the labour market, we examine the development of three policies in Korea and Japan since 1990s. Labour market deregulation policy, female employment policy and lastly, family policy are examined as institutional arrangement. Lastly, we discuss on how institutional combination is associated with females' concentration in the outside labour market in Korean and Japanese dual labour market.

Incompetent Construction Technologies and Resources in the Construction Industry of Yemen

  • Sultan, Basil;Alaghbari, Wa'el
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2014
  • The Construction industry in Yemen confronts many development constraints, such as the inadequate implementation of appropriate building materials and labour construction technologies. Thus, this research looks over building materials and labour construction technologies used on the local housing construction projects by verifying the percentage of construction expenditure consumed by the main construction components (Materials, Labour and Overhead and Profit), along with the implemented construction technologies. The paper conducts a survey to acquire the cost distribution of the construction main components. The outcomes of the survey were discussed; the discussion was supported by literature on similar issues from some countries. The outcomes confirmed the relatively limited percentage in labour cost and profit, and the elevated percentage of construction materials cost, which are because of the excessive and inappropriate use of materials. What's more, established that the excessively redundant unskilled labours are not effectively engaged in the construction activities, this is due to the tendency of the market in using labour-base technologies. This paper is to recommend a suitable policies and strategies has to be used to decrease cost by using efficiently appropriate construction practice and local materials, moreover take advantage of excessive labour to reduce unemployment.

Emotional Labour, Emotional Expression and Burnout of Clinical Nurses (임상간호사의 정서노동, 정서표현과 소진)

  • Park, Hyun-Joo
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among emotional labour, emotional expression and burnout of clinical nurse. Method: Data was collected from convenient sample of 178 nurses in 4 cities. The questionnaire measured the level of emotional labour, emotional expression and burnout of clinical nurse. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficient. Result: The mean score of emotional labour was 3.34(${\pm}.41$), emotional expression was 3.49(${\pm}.51$), burnout was 2.94(${\pm}.58$). There were significant differences on burnout according to age, marital status, religion, clinical career, working unit, level of job satisfaction, satisfaction of work load, satisfaction of interpersonal relations. There was a significant positive correlation between emotional labour and emotional expression. The emotional expression was a significant negative correlation with burnout. Conclusions: From the studies reviewed, it can expect the positive effect to decrease the burnout of clinical nurses when the nurse administrators who have concern about nurses' emotional expression. These findings would be significant resource to promote understanding about emotional labour for nurses.

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The Differential Effect of Emotional Labour on Boundary Spanners

  • MUPARANGI, Simbarashe;SIZIBA, Singirai;MAKUDZA, Forbes
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: The study sought to uncover the effect of emotional labour strategies (surface acting and deep acting) on job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion. The study also purposed to analyse the moderating effect of organisational support (supervisory support and co-worker support) and the role of gender on emotional labour connotations. Research design, data and methodology: A conceptual framework was developed using extant literature which led to the examination of deep acting and surface acting, which are the two main strategies of emotional labour. The outcome variables were emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction. Data was collected from front line employees of banks and was analysed using SEM-AMOS version 21. Results: It was revealed, in this study, that surface acting is inversely related to job satisfaction and positively related to emotional exhaustion, whereas deep acting was positively related to job satisfaction and inversely related to emotional exhaustion. The roles of gender and organisational support were also confirmed. Conclusions: The study therefore concluded that deep acting is the most ideal strategy of emotional labour as it leads to job satisfaction and reduced emotional exhaustion. Surface acting is a harmful emotional labour strategy.

The polarization of labour market and social integration - social integrative law & institutions and labour market policy (노동시장양극화와 사회통합방안 - 사회통합적 법·제도와 노동시장정책을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Ho-Geun
    • 한국사회정책
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.261-304
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    • 2013
  • This article is aiming intensively to analyze the polarizing tendency of labour market and social integration. The polarization of labour market is being regarded as one of the hottest issues not less important than those problems of economic growth, employment, income distribution and national security etc. in the national policy. In this article, we will first follow up the important phenomena of labour market polarization and the background as well as its consequence. Especially, it asks if the present labour policy in the new government which is now being concentrated on the improvement of employment rate(from the present 63% to the 70% in the future) could deserve to diminish the polarization of labour market in korea. At one side, this article makes the special attention on the diversifying tendency of labour market and the various phenomena of fragmentation and segmentation in the labour market according to the forms and types of employment and according to the employee's status as much as the company's size. At the other side, it emphasizes that to overcome the polarization of labour market should require the wide reform from the legal measure to the improvement of the wage system, and the qualification system and the social investment as well as the human resource development. Furthermore, this article stresses the importance of integrative approach between the active market policy and the social policy instead of choosing each policy option, seperatively.

Mutation of Flows of FDI and Labour within East Asia (동아시아 자본 및 노동이동의 구조적 변화)

  • Moon, Nam-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.215-228
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    • 2006
  • Because of the technological innovation of information-communication, the liberalization of world trade and the intensification of regionalisation, the world economic space is in progress of globalization that is not only a product but also a capital, technology and labour move freely over the countries. In the globalized economic space, the multinational finns accelerate a globalization of capital and labour by exporting the capital to the peripherals countries for the low cost of production and importing the low wage labour from the peripherals countries. East Asia which appeared one of the world triad economic axis with a rapid regional economic growth after 1980's intensifies the regionalisation of capital and labour. As the increase of gap in cost of production and income level among the countries, not only the direction of flows of capital and labour but also the traits of migrant labour also changes remarkably.

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Labour Market institutions, Wage Dispersion, and Social Policy (노동시장 제도, 임금분산, 그리고 복지정책)

  • Hong, Kyung-Zoon
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.297-317
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    • 2007
  • In this article, I want to demonstrate wage equality increases support for welfare expenditures while the wage equality depends on how labour market institutions are organized. In other words, this study tries to show that there can be institutional complementarity between inequality-reducing labour market institutions and generous social policy. In the first section, I develop a theoretical models which deal(1) how the inequality of income affects the political support for welfare expenditure(2) how the configurations of labour market institutions affect income inequality in the labour market. In the following section, this study tests the models with data on welfare spending, configurations of labour market institutions, and the inequality of wage and salaries in 14 welfare states from 1980 to 1995. Empirical analysis also provides support for key implications of the models. These models and empirical findings may show that the institutional complementarity stems from the interdependence of institutional influences on actors' decision-making. Moreover, this study suggests welfare policy are always considered with labour market institutions.

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A Study on the Significance of the Maritime Labour (2006년 해사노동협약의 채택의의)

  • Ji, Sang-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2006
  • ILO has contributed for seafarers to promote conditions of employment and decent work through maritime labour standards. Between 1920 and 1996, a total of 39 Conventions and 29 Recommendations concerning seafarers have been adopted, which demonstrates the import part of ILO activities devoted to seafarers' questions. But many instruments were outdated, deficient and not reflective of modern practice, many contained technical detail which discouraged ratification. the Governing Body of ILO, at its 262nd Session(March-April 1995), decided to set up a Working Party regarding the revision of maritime labour standards. This Working Party initiated its examination of maritime instruments to 273rd Session(November 1998) of the Governing Body. The review made by the Working Party has concluded that existing maritime Conventions were considered either up to date or were identified for promotion, most of which were approved by the Governing Body. Therefore, ILO started to create a single, coherent instrument embodying as far as possible all up-to-date standards of existing maritime labour convention. The Maritime Labour Convention 2006 has been adopted in February 2006. This paper aims to analyze the significance of this convention and the influence regarding to maritime labour affairs in the field of shipping industry.

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A Study on the Significance of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (2006년 해사노동협약의 채택의의)

  • Ji, Sang-Won
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.31 no.1 s.117
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2007
  • ILO has contributed for seafarers to promote conditions of employment and decent work through maritime labour standards. Between 1920 and 1996, a total of 39 Conventions and 29 Recommendations concerning seafarers have been adopted, which demonstrates the important part of ILO activities devoted to seafarers' questions. But many instruments were outdated, deficient and not reflective of modern practice, many contained technical detail which discouraged ratification. The Governing Body of ILO, at its 262nd Session(March-April 1995), decided to set up a Working Party regarding the revision of maritime labour standards. This Working Party initiated its examination of maritime instruments to 273rd Session(November 1998) of the Governing Body. The review made by the Working Party has concluded that existing maritime Conventions were considered either up to date or were identified for promotion, most of which were approved by the Governing Body. Therefore, ILO started to create a single, coherent instrument embodying as far as possible all up-to-date standards of existing maritime labour conventions. The Maritime Labour Convention 2006 was adopted in February 2006. This paper aims to analyze the significance of this Convention and the influence regarding to maritime labour affairs in the field of shipping industry.