• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.57-75
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• 2009

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of SCHIP (The State Children's Health Insurance Program) on single mothers' working decisions using recent CPS (Current Population Survey) data during 1999-2005. SCHIP are found to have a significant positive impact on hours-worked decision.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.1-59
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• 2018

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a policy that supports low-income households financially as well as provides an economic incentive to participate in the labor market. Thus, estimating the causal effect of the policy on the labor force participation rate of low-income households is critical for the policy evaluation. In this paper, we exploit the variation in the eligibility to the EITC and the size of the benefit over several reforms of the EITC in South Korea since 2008 and estimate the impact on the participation in the labor market. Using data from four major household surveys, we find that the results are mixed; in some samples and specifications, we find that the effect is positive and statistically significant, while it is insignificant in others. The estimated effect is more likely to be positive and significant when we restrict the sample to the period before 2014. It is an important topic of future research whether the EITC's effect gets weaker because it is extended to cover the self-employed and beneficiaries of the National Basic Livelihood Security.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.31-62
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• 2018

Using matching and difference-in-differences estimation method, this study estimates causal effects of health shocks on employment and income of full-time workers aged 40-55. Acute hospital admissions lower significantly the employment probability and earnings. The changes in employment and earnings persist up to three years after the health shock. The economic impacts of health shocks vary by socioeconomic status and job characteristics among individuals. Irregular workers are more likely to leave their jobs after health shocks than regular workers. Among irregular workers, the probability of leaving labor market after health shock decreases with the size of the firm.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.66
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• pp.211-241
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• 2014

In the era of neoliberalism with high rate of youth unemployment, young college students are forced to believe that the only way to enter the job market is by accepting and participating temporary off-campus apprenticeship, which often disguised as an internship for the creative culture and knowledge. This article discusses that the mode of off-campus apprenticeship, which is supposed to voluntary and participatory, bears in fact a strong resemblance with digital labor. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with college students, this study argues that the apprentice-typed labor denotes a process by which immaterial labor or free labor coincides with self-directed job training. Throughout the digital labor processes young college students are in a constant oscillation between precarity and hope, negotiating their autonomy and social conditions in the neoliberal work environment. The digital labor accumulates students' knowledge and information as a form of commodity, which in turn supports communicative capitalism.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.58-82
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• 1998

It is usually proposed that job security of old age workers is hampered by the structure of wage increasing with age. This paper sets forth a model to comprehend the characteristic of the old age workers' labor market and policy implications derived from it. In order to stimulate demand for old age workers, policy initiatives should be taken as follows : the wage criteria should be simplified which apply differently from one institution to other; incentives relatively favorable for employing old age workers' in manufacturing sector should be also given to service sectors; employment subsidy or other tax incentives should be given for labor contract after the retirement age; licensing and evaluation system for job ability should be introduced based on occupation & job analysis. To lower the reservation wage of workers, mortgage loan for house and long-term low interest loan for tuition fees should be developed together with stabilization of housing cost. Wedding culture which requires high expense should be amended. Above all, it is necessary to install reasonable social security system. Policy orientation should also pay attention to reduce labor supply of the old aged via aiding old age workers' firm opening and voluntary civil service together with developing various honor programs for members of civil corps.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.95-128
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• 2018

This study tries to measure the change in the state dependence of the three labor supply choices (part-time, full-time, and the state of unemployed) in Korean married women's labor market by estimating the dynamic multinomial logit model based on MSL (maximum simulated likelihood) method. A component representing individual's unobserved characteristics has been introduced, because it is crucial to control for unobserved heterogeneity in assessing the state dependence. Estimation results show that the state dependences of the three alternatives have strengthened recently. Therefore, part-time job has become more likely to be functioning as an extra option to participate in labor market rather than a bridge(stepping stone) or shelter between unemployment and full-time job.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2022.04a
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• pp.165-169
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• 2022

연구의 목적은 𐩒𐩒은행-N사의 SME 교육프로그램에 참여한 자영업자를 대상으로 자영업을 시작하게 된 동기와 경로를 규명해보는데 있다. 본 연구는 자영업자의 노동시장 및 노동경험 등에 따라 자영업 진입에 관한 연구를 수행하고자 심층 인터뷰 자료를 활용하였는데, 연구참여자의 선정에 있어 이론적 표본 추출방식을 사용하여 연구의 목적에 부합하는 대상자를 선발하여 분석하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 자영업자가 자영업에 진입하게 된 동기는 ① 전 직장의 근로조건 불만족과 본인 사업을 향한 꿈의 실현을 위해 자영업에 진입하였고 ② 취업에 대한 대안으로 자영업을 선택하였으며 ③ 가족과 지인의 창업에 대한 권유와 도움으로 자영업을 선택하게 되었다. 둘째, 자영업자가 진입하게 된 유형은 ① 임금노동자 경험 후 자영업자 창업 ② 임금노동자 경험 후 경력을 활용하여 유관분야 자영업 창업 ③ 임금노동자 퇴사 후 자영업 승계 ④ 본인의 자영업 창업 경험 이후 가업 승계 과정에서의 자영업으로 진입하는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.113-150
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• 2006

This study examines how labor unions change in the 21st centry and what is needed for successful transformation of Korean labor union. The study identifies four major driving forces of change in union's role. They are changes in industrial and occupational structures, utilization of information technology, labor substitution, and changing attitude of workers. The effects are decrease in union membership, shrinking coverage of bargaining, weakening voice mechanism, and representation. Thus, labor unions in the 21st centry transform themselves into service union, individual representation system, and worker participation model. Korean labor union, with its current reputation of militant unionism, needs to transform into above mentioned model. Two keys for the change are market competition and family unionism.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.45-62
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• 1994

지금까지 일반적으로 재화의 소비자 수요에 관한 연구가 써비스의 소비자 수요에 관한 연구보다 강조되어 온 경향이 있으나 급증하는 써비의 분야의 중요성에 비추어 볼 때, 가계의 가계생산 시간절약에 기여할수 있는 써비스 지출에 영향을 미치는 소득, 가계의 경제적.사회적 구조 그리고 여성의 노동시장 참여증가의 효과를 연구하는 것은 매우 필요한 일이라 생각된다. 본연구의 결과는 가계 및 개인을 포함하는 소비자 행동의 이해증진을 통해서 성공적인 마아케팅 전략의 개발을 도모하는 관련 써비스 업계와 소비자 행동과 가계의 소비행태에 관심이 있는 소비자 및 가계 경제학자들에게 유용한 정보를 제공할 것이다. 아울러, 본연구는 수용 함수 및 탄력성의 측정을 통해서 각 써비스의 특성을 규명하는데 유용한 정보를 제공함으로 써비스 관련 공공정책의 수립에 도움을 줄수 있을것이다.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.231-270
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• 2002

US government and leaders in education have deeply paid an attention to the transition from school to work as we live in an era of globalization and fierce competion between countries. Industrial leaders, on the one hand, stress that schools should be reformed to adapt to changing technical environment. On the other hand, general educators still maintain that school education should strive to educate people to be a good citizen. However, fierce competition between countries under the remarkable development of computer and information technique has led the US government to create new programs of the transition from school to work. However, parents as well as students are still suspicious that diplom of high school with stress in skills is enough to keep a stable job, guarantee a satisfactory salary, and mai lain a social status. Accordingly they are more likely to use the school-to-work program as a supplement to the transition to college than to participate in the program to get a good job after high school. Each state in the US prepares its own program of the school-to-work transition with financial supports from the federal government. But the prospect of the programs in each state is not optimistic as financial supports from the federal government have decreased. The school-to-work transition program is strongly needed not only for those half who do not go to college but also for the US government that requires workers with a high level of skills. Nonetheless, the program is not firmly established in the US yet.