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KMID : 1124020180340030195
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Korean Social Security Studies
2018 Volume.34 No. 3 p.195 ~ p.214
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A comparison of how fathers with different job status spend time with their children under 5
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Choi Hye-Jin
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Abstract
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This study compares how fathers with different job status spend time differently with their children under 5 years old. Fathers’ job status, such as full-time, part-time, self-employed, and unemployed, is thought to be critical to their allocation of time to family life. Using data from the recent Childcare Survey in Korea, self-employed fathers spend the lest time with their children during a weekend while the fathers' father working full time spend the lest time during weekdays. The fathers working part-time spend more time than fathers working full time regarding the total time spent during the week. The interaction effect between fathers’ job status and family income was statistically significant for the self-employed fathers. The self-employed fathers above 4th income quintile had a cross-over effect compare to the fathers working full time. It means that self-employed fathers experienced stronger trade-off relationship between time spent with family and time spend to earn income. The results reveal that fathers’ experience of time constraints are influenced by their labour market status. Based on the result, this study argues that we need to consider the sophisticated policy approach that may easy different time constraints among young fathers.
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KEYWORD
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Job status, Time spent with children, Korean Childcare Survey, Fatherhood
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