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KMID : 0613620200400010146
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Health Social Welfare Review
2020 Volume.40 No. 1 p.146 ~ p.177
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Happiness of Workers: Effects of Multidimensional Poverty
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Kim Seong-A
Kim Moon-Kil
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Abstract
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Work stimulates individuals as social beings and provides them with economic viability in a modern society. However, relatively little literature has been published that addresses happiness and multidimensional poverty among workers as a policy target group. This study was aimed at identifying and comparing the differences in life satisfaction, happiness, and multidimensional poverty across workers. We also examined the effects of multidimensional poverty on the life satisfaction of workers. To extract multidimensional poverty effects across status in employment, we categorized observations into four groups: regular employees, non-regular employees, self-employed with employees, and self-employed without employees. This study used data from the Korea Welfare Panel Study conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (2007-2018). The findings include the following. First, with respect to life satisfaction and multidimensional poverty, non-regular employees and self-employed without employees fared worse than regular employees and self-employed with employees. Second, multidimensional poverty lowered the life satisfaction of workers. Self-employed with and without employees were more vulnerable than regular and non-regular employees especially with respect to the domain of social security. Together with these findings, we identify the effectiveness of the multidimensional poverty frame to improve happiness of workers and discover hidden vulnerable population. These provide policy makers with evidence to expand public policy targets to workers, especially including the self-employed.
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KEYWORD
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Happiness, Life Satisfaction, Workers, Status in Employment, Multidimensional Poverty
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