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A Study of Cohort Comparison on Job Stability of Young Women

  • Korea Social Policy Review
  • Abbr : KSPR
  • 2020, 27(4), pp.19-47
  • DOI : 10.17000/kspr.27.4.202012.19
  • Publisher : Korean Association of Social Policy
  • Research Area : Social Science > Sociology > Medical / Welfare / Social policy
  • Received : October 17, 2020
  • Accepted : December 17, 2020
  • Published : December 30, 2020

Chang, Jiyeun 1

1한국노동연구원

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ABSTRACT

This study asked whether the gender gap in job stability is narrowing in the younger cohort compared to the old cohort. The gender gap in job stability has decreased over the past 30 years. It is difficult to say that the increase in women's job stability was at a breakthrough. However, considering that employment instability among young men has been intensifying during the same period, the government policy seems to have functioned to the extent that it suppresses the intensification of employment insecurity among young women. The gender gap in job security was larger in the primary market, which is the internal labor market, than in the secondary market, which is a competitive market, but the decline in the gender gap was found to be occurring in both the primary and secondary markets. The employment instability of young women is more severe in the so-called “female occupations” where women are concentrated, and there was no signs of improvement over the past 30 years. This finding contradicts the implications of Neoclassical economics that gender occupational segregation is the result of women’s voluntary choices to maximize their own benefits. Policy efforts to resolve the gender segregation in the labor market should be attempted more seriously.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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