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KMID : 1124020120280030087
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Korean Social Security Studies
2012 Volume.28 No. 3 p.87 ~ p.120
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Effect of married women`s economic activity type on the private education expenditure for children in Korea
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Seok Jae-Eun
Kim Bon-Kuen
Noh Hye-Jin
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Abstract
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It would be a very serious problem if the income inequality and polarization are transmitted from the parent’s generation to the next generation and restrict the social mobility of the children’s generation. This study focused on the role of mothers, the practical decision-makers in relation to the investment in their children’s private education, while bringing the focus to the disparity in private education expenditure for children among different social classes, the essential factor that causes intergenerational social class immobility. This study attempted to take an empirical approach to the issue mentioned above on the assumption that the investment in the children’s private education would be affected by the type of mothers’ economic activities. Thus, the characteristics of mothers’ economic activities were classified into several categories, i.e., independent type, livelihood type, financial supplementation type, and noneconomic activity type, based on the analysis of the groups, and this study attempted to determine the effect that the characteristics of Korean mothers’ economic activities would have on the private education expenditure for children by income class. For the analysis, the data were obtained by sampling the households with married spouse and children(aged between 5 and 18) among the working age class(aged between 20 and 59) from the 10th and 11th editions published by the Korean Labor & Income Panel Study. The per-capita expenditures for children’s private education were examined by income quintile. It was found that the monthly per-capita spending on the private education for children was KRW 96,000 in the lowest 20% income bracket and KRW 514,000 in the highest 20% income bracket. This shows that the per-capita expenditure for the private education of children in the highest income bracket was approximately 5.4 times higher than that for the private education of children in the lowest income bracket. Based on the type of women’s economic activities, the monthly per-capita expenditure for the private education of children was KRW 384,000 among the independent type, the highest, followed by the non-economic activity type with KRW 341,000, financial supplementation type with KRW 283,000, and livelihood type with KRW 196,000. The results of the multiple regression analysis - pertaining to the effect that the characteristics of mothers’ economic activities would have on the expenditure for the private education of children - showed that the noneconomic activity type had the largest private education expenditure for children, followed by the independent and livelihood type, when the household income, etc., were controlled. Meanwhile, the financial supplementation type did not exhibit statistical significance. Based on the results of analysis by income class, it was found that the independent type had significantly lower expenditure for the private education of their children compared to the noneconomic activity type in the high income class, while the livelihood type had significantly lower expenditure for the private education of their children compared to the noneconomic activity type in the mid-level income class. Meanwhile, the type of women’s economic activities was not statistically significant in the low income class. Those results imply that full-time house wives who are not engaged in economic activities have more available material resources compared to the working women and tend to have more free time and leverage to provide support for the private education of children in Korea.
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KEYWORD
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disparity in private education expenditure, income polarization, women`s economic activity, assortative mating, economic resource, time resource
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