Colloquium in June 2025 Soo-yeon Moon and Kwang-yeong Shin (Chung-ang University, Department of Sociology) This paper analyzes the factors affecting the formation of single-person households, and the relationship between single-person households and income inequality. First, considering that the types and causes of single-person households vary throughout the life course, we 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…
Distributional Approach to the Changes in Gender Wage Gap in Korea, 1982～2004. Economy and Society. Kim Young-Mi (2009) This study utilizes the relative distribution method developed by Hancock and Morris (1998), and analyzes the process of closing gender wage gap in Korea using “Basic Survey on Wage Structure”, 1982～2004. The Read more…
Colloquium in Jun. 2017 Cha, Youngjoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Indiana Univ., Bloomington, U.S.)