Quality of Jobs for Female Workers: A Comparative Study of South Korea and Australia

Hanna Jung; Joonmo Cho

doi:10.1007/s11482-014-9351-1

Quality of Jobs for Female Workers: A Comparative Study of South Korea and Australia

Hanna Jung
, Joonmo Cho

Department of Economics

Sungkyunkwan University and Korea Employment Information Service

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Abstract

This study conducts a comparative analysis regarding the quality of job in Australia and South Korea on the basis of ordered logit model using two countries’ household data sets during 2003–2009. We compose the quality of job into various subgroups by combining hourly wage, job security and working hours, and verify that despite having similar Affirmative Action (AA) systems in the two countries, Australian women are more likely to work in jobs with higher quality compared to South Korean women subject to the loose incentive operation of AA.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-22
Number of pages	22
Journal	Applied Research in Quality of Life
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-014-9351-1
State	Published - 1 Mar 2016

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Affirmative Action
Gender gap
Job security
Quality of job
Wage
Working hours

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