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…
Colloquium in Aug. 2018 Kim, Yujin (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Kangwon National Univ.) This study analyzes whether and how cognitive aging patterns vary across cohorts in Korea, especially with a focus on their gender differences. The analysis is based on a 5,270 sample from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging data which biannually surveyed Koreans aged 45 or Read more…
‘2018 ISA (International Sociological Association) RC28 (Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility) Spring Meeting’, Korea Inequality Research Network participated in as one of the organizers, was held at Yonsei University, Seoul from May 25 to May 27, 2018. In the meeting with the topic of “Rethinking Social Inequality Read more…
Joint Seminar for Sociology Graduate Students from Yonsei Univ. & Univ. of Pennsylvania (May 2018) Ho, Phoebe (PhD Student, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) This study analyzes how young adults’ trajectories of residential independence vary in the U.S. by race/ethnicity as well as within the group of Asian Read more…
Colloquium in Apr. 2018 Lee, Seung-yoon (Professor, Dept. of Social Welfare at Ewha Womans Univ.) The concept and background of ‘basic income’, along with the ways to implement it in reality were discussed. The basic income has been introduced as one of the alternative welfare systems to reflect today’s socioeconomic Read more…
Colloquium in Mar. 2018 Cho, Eunjoo (Professor, Myongji Univ.) This research is part of a qualitative longitudinal study conducted since 2016, as to analyze how parents’ socio-economic status and residential characteristics can influence children’s possibility of social mobility. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations with 15 students in a Read more…
The Effect of Organizational Culture, Mentoring, and Social Network on Career Success of Managerial Women Lim, Hee Jung. 2009. Korean Organization & Management Studies 33(4): 95-120. In Korea, the proportion of women in management is exceptionally small and a variety of barriers are placed in the women’s routes to career Read more…
Korean’s Work-Family Balance Policy during 1990 and 2014 from the Perspective of Defamiliarization, Decommodification: Especially Focusing on Maternity Leave, Parental Leave, and Childcare Policies Jeon, Yoon-Jeon. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(3): 179-218. This study aimed at looking into the developments of Korea’s work-family balance policy during the period Read more…