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KMID : 0379220090290020593
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2009 Volume.29 No. 2 p.593 ~ p.610
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An Analysis of the Polarization of the Middle-aged and Old Worker`s Employment by Age and Gender
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Lee Sung-Yong
Pang Ha-Nam
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Abstract
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The Purpose of this study are to examine the middle-age and old worker’s employment rates by age
and gender at economic depression and recovery periods after the economic crisis, to identify the main
3causes of the change of the middle-age and old worker’s employment rates between two periods, and to analyze whether the determinants affecting the middle-age and old worker’s employment may be different by age and gender. For this study, The Annual Korean Labor Panel data(from 1st to 7th) are used. The results show that the employment rates are increased in the economic recovery period, and the difference between male and female employment rates decrease as ages go up. As we predicted, the determinants affecting the middle-age and old worker’s employment are different by age and gender. For example, the existence of partner has positive effect on the male employment, but negative effect on female employment. The increases of the middle and old age worker’s employment rates in the recovery period are mainly caused by the extension of the individualism(that is, the increases of the middle and upper class workers’ employment), rather than the increases of the poor workers’ employment rates due to the poverty(that is, the increases of the lower and poor class workers’ employment). In the recovery period, comparing to the economic depression periods, the middle-age and old workers in the high class were likely to remain his(her) a good job while those in lower class are more difficult to get a job. This results show that the polarization of middle-age and old worker’s employment has been appeared in the recovery periods(after 2001).
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KEYWORD
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Middle-age and old worker`s employment, Employment rates by gender, Employment rates by age, the polarization of middle-age and old worker`s employment
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