Have you heard of the “spoon class theory”, a term widely used among online communities in South Korea? It refers to the idea that individual’s success in life solely depends on being born into parents of high socioeconomic status. According to this ‘theory’, the influence of parents’ socioeconomic status on Read more…
Colloquium in Dec. 2018 Qian, Yue (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Based on the data of 3,000 female and 3,000 male users of a popular Chinese dating website living in Shanghai, China, this study analyzes how their preferences for age hyper-gamy (male partner older than Read more…
South Korea’s fertility rate is expected to hit a record breaking 0.96 births per woman this year. This is due to various reasons including high unemployment rate and increasing cost of living, but fundamentally it is due to high costs of marriage and birth. In a country influenced by Confucianism, Read more…
Colloquium in Nov. 2018 Youm, Yoosik (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.) This study claims that social interactions could be explained by the interactions between the individuals’ brains, seeing the human brain as one of the main mechanisms to analyze social activities. It has been known that the size Read more…
Women’s Economic Activities and the Gender Role Attitudes in Conjugal Relationships Mun, Ji-Sun. 2017. Korean Journal of Sociology 51(2): 191-232. This study analyzed how conjugal gender role attitudes on economic activity of married women is related to the women’s actual economic activity. It observed three(3)-quantile families by household income which Read more…
Colloquium in Oct. 2018 Lee, Chul-Sung (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Sogang Univ.) Based on ‘Household Income Trends’ in 1990~2016, this study analyzes how wealth inequality has increased in Korean society. According to the analysis, cohorts born in the 1930s~40s and the 1970s~80s show especially a high level of wealth inequality Read more…
The Short-Hours Part-Time Jobs in Korea Moon, Ji-Sun and Young-Mi Kim. 2017. Korean Journal of Labor Studies 23(1): 129-164. This article is an exploratory study on the recent growth of short-hours part-time work in Korea. The short-hours part-time work has been rapidly growing among low-educated women over sixty, particularly among bereaved Read more…
Colloquium in Sept. 2018 Yoon, Jayoung (Professor, Dept. of Economics at Chungnam National Univ.) This study analyzes how women workers’ status in the labor market is associated with their access to childbirth and childcare leave, based on Korean Labor and Income Panel Study data. According to the analysis, the lower women workers’ income level, the less likely Read more…
Seniority Based Pay System and the Relational Basis of Workplace Inequality Kwon, Hyunji and Ham, Sunyu. 2017. Korean Journal of Labor Studies 23(2): 1-45. This study aims at explaining organizational mechanisms of inequality that has been rising rapidly alongside the proliferation of irregular employment in the post-crisis Korean labor market. It argues that inequality is Read more…
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market after the Financial Crisis: Focused on the Gender Differences in Work Career and Wage Lee, Soon-Mi. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(2): 91-129. To analyze whether the low quality of women’s employment is due to the effect of the life event, interruption or deepening gender inequality Read more…