• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.1-44
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• 2013

This paper surveys the existing literatures on labor demand of Korea. It has been found that labor and capital are substitutes in Korea and the result holds even if labor is decomposed into white collar and blue collar workers. The elasticity of substitution lies between 0 and 1. It is yet unclear if employment and work hours are substitutes. The reduction of legal work week did not increase employment although decreased work hours. The labor demand elasticity is below 0.5 in the short run. Since mid 1990s, the technological change has shown skill bias and therefore increased demand for skilled labor.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.44-60
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• 2010

Under the continuing economic growth without increase in employment, issues regarding the impact of IT investment on demand for labor have been continuously raised. Under the circumstance, this study carried out an empirical analysis on the impact of IT investment on employment with a sample of 498 businesses whose domestic sales for the period of six years from 2003 to 2008 are KRW 100 billion or above. The result of the analysis found that IT investment increases employment in most of the industries except for some of the service sectors. In the manufacturing industry, more IT investment increased employment but decreased the flexibility in demand for labor; therefore, IT investment has a substitutional relationship with low-skilled labor and a complementary relationship with high-skilled labor. In the areas of electricity, gas and construction, employment increased as IT investment increased, with the greatest flexibility in demand for labor. In the service industry, increase in IT investment led to more employment and higher flexibility in producer services only. On the other hand, there was no meaningful relationship found between IT investment and employment in the areas of distribution services and social services.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.1-28
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• 2011

This paper empirically tests the theory that labor demand elasticity of unionized firms would be smaller than that of nonunionized firms, using the Korean firms' panel data for 1990-2009. The major findings are the following: First, the estimates of labor demand elasticity of unionized firms are in the range of 0.34-0.49, less than a half of those of nonunionized firms, hence supporting the theory. Second, the unionized firms are more rigid in dynamic adjustment of employment than nonunionized firms. Finally, there are no significant differences between unionized and nonunionized firms in the elasticity of substitution.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.88-98
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• 1995

본 연구는 확대기 가정주부의 가사노동 시간관리 전략방안을 모색하기 위한 자료를 제공하려는 데 그 목적이 있으며, 연구결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 주부의 가사노동시간은 1일 평균 6시간정도로서 80년대보다 감소한 것으로 나타났으며 유의적인 변수는 주부 의취업여부와 가족수이다. 둘째, 가사노동시간관리전략은 주부의 교육수준, 취업여부, 첫자녀나이, 월 총소득에 따라 의미있는 차이가 나타났다. 가사노동 시간관리전략의 하위영역인 가족성원간의 분담화는 주부의 취업여부, 첫 자녀나이, 가족수에 따라서 의미있는 차이가 나타났다. 가사노동 계통화에서는 가사노동 시간관리 전략의 하위영역중 가장 높은 평균점수를 나타냈으나 변수간에는 유의적인 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 가사노동 간소화는 주부의 교육수준, 취업여부, 결혼지속년수, 주거형태, 가족수, 월총소득에서 유의적인 차이가 나타난것으로 보아 대다수의 주부들이 가사노동을 간소화시키려는 의지가 있음을 알 수 있다. 가사노동 기계화는 주부의 교육수준, 월 총소득에 따라 유의적인 차이가 나탄났다. 세째, 가사노동시간에 영향을 미치는 가사노동시간관리전략은 간소화, 사회화 및 분담화로서 가사노동시간감소에 영향을 미치고 있으며, 계통화와 기계화는 가사노동 시간증가에 영향을 미치는 전략으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.165-179
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• 2004

While they compare the growth rate of wage with that of average labor productivity, we compare it with the growth rate of marginal labor productivity. After estimating the elasticity of substitution and technology level, we estimate the marginal labor productivity. Wages and marginal labor productivities are similar over 1963-2000. However, while wages come short of marginal labor productivities over 1963-1986, they exceed marginal labor productivities over 1987-2000. Although the growth rate of wage is not so different from that of marginal labor productivity, it can be disparate from that of average labor productivity. Therefore the former exceeding the latter does not mean the excessive wage growth off the labor demand curve.

• Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.137-179
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• 2018

To reduce labor market discrimination, there are lively discussions about the role of extant labor regime based on labor unions. It includes both the critical perspective on extant labor movement and the necessity of new actors for resolving discriminations within labor market. Among new actors, the present study focuses on contingent labor centers. Specifically, we have investigated on the development and identity of contingent labor centers as coalition of local government-labor organization. The core content of this study is to reconstruct the activities and strategies of contingent labor centers throughout the longitudinal approach. From many evidences, we can confirm that contingent labor centers have evolved via three phases such as differentiation, de- politicizing, and networks. This finding also provides insights about inside relationships between contingent labor centers and outside tensions between contingent labor center and extant labor organizations. We finally discuss on the theoretical implications of contingent labor center as new actor for contingent worker movement.

• The tire
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• s.46
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• pp.26-30
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• 1973

노동성은 선반 타이어산업, 자동차공업을 포함하는 20산업계의 1970년노동생산통계를 수집 그 결과를 발표했다. 이에 의하면 1970년이라 하면 경기하강기에 들어선탓인지 노동생산성(생산물단위당의 노동시간수)는 일부를 제외하고는 저하하고 있는 업종이 많으며 불황기인 1965년보다는 낳으나 66년~69년의 각년보다는 나쁘다고 되어있다. 또 타이어 대해서 보건데 70년대에는 이미 타이어수요의 커어브가 하향길을 더듬고 있을 때 이기도 하여 정세로서는 반드시 좋다고는 할 수 없으나 노동생산성으로서는 전체적 견지에서 약천이라도 상향되어 있다는 것이다. 연이나 그 전의 상향률보다는 나쁘다는 것이다.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.103-128
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• 2008

This paper estimates the union effect on the wages using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study by using fixed-effect estimation. While the cross-sectional estimates show the size of 4.6% increase in the wages of workers in the union compared 10 the observationally identical workers in the non-union jobs, the union wage effect is estimated as 2.1% increase in the panel study. This shows that there exits an substantial upward-bias in the cross-sectional estimation of union wage effect.

• The Safety technology
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• no.179
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• pp.24-25
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• 2012

신계륜 국회 환경노동위원회 위원장은 자타가 공인하는 환경노동 전문가로 꼽힌다. 이는 그의 지난 활동들을 들여다보면 쉽게 파악할 수 있다. 신 위원장은 1980년대부터 10여 년간 산업현장을 직접 누비며 노동 인권 운동에 앞장서 왔다. 이후 그는 1992년 14대 국회에서 입성한 후 환경노동위원회에 몸을 담으면서 근로자들의 안전을 위한 활동을 시작했다. 또 16대 국회에서는 현장중심의 의정활동을 본격적으로 펼쳐 나갔다. 당시 환노위 법안심사소위원장 재임시절에 노동계와 재계의 합의를 이끌어 내면서 주5일 근무제를 도입시킨 것이 대표적이 예라고 할 수 있다. 그리고 19대 국회에서는 그동안의 환경노동 관련 경험을 인정받아 전반기 환경노동위원회 위원장에 선임됐다. 이처럼 그는 환경노동 분야에서 잔뼈가 굵은 전문가 중에 전문가라고 할 수 있다. 그만큼 신 위원장의 의정활동에는 많은 이들의 시선이 집중되는 것이다. 이에 신계륜 환노위 위원장을 만나 앞으로의 계획과 우리나라 산업안전문화에 대해 여러 이야기를 나눠봤다.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.21-35
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• 2021

The purpose of this paper is to examine how demand for labor affects the job seeker's decision on the level of investment in education. In the current paradigm of economic growth in which innovations and technological developments generally weaken the strength demand for labor and increases the uncertainty related to employment, this paper provides a theoretical framework that can be used as a basic framework in understanding the decision of investment in education in varying conditions of demand for labor. The following are the findings of this paper. First, the level of investment in education can generally be regarded to be higher as the demand for labor exacerbates but for the job seekers with a certain characteristic. Second, the Arrow-Pratt absolute risk-aversion measure is the characteristic of the job seeker that determines in what direction the job seeker changes in the level of investment in education, For an arbitrary level of demand for labor there exists a certain threshold which determines the minimum degree of risk-aversion required for the job seeker's Arrow-Pratt should go over to increase the level of education as demand for labor weakens. Third, the job seekers lower the level of education even though the demand condition in labor markets weakens if the compensation function does not depend on the level of education. This is surprising because it turns out that one of the reasons why job seekers invest in education is that they want to be recognized in their compensation for their level of education even when more education still raises the probability of employment.