Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the New Faculty Startup Fund from Seoul National University. We would like to thank Safety and Health Policy Research Department (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, OSHRI) for offering raw-data of Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS). The paper's contents are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily represent the official vies of the OSHRI.
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