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- Title
Unequal Chance of Obtaining a Secure Job: Marriage Migrant Women in the Korean Labor Market.
- Authors
Yang, Kyung-Eun
- Abstract
This study aimed to empirically analyze the magnitude of discrimination within the South Korean labor market between immigrant and native women in light of different employment patterns. Using an extended version of the Oaxaca decomposition method, special analytical attention was paid to the heavy concentration of immigrant women in the informal sector of the labor market rather than the formal sector. The extensive data for the study came from the Korea National Survey of Multicultural Families and the 12th wave of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study, both conducted in 2009. Overall, the results presented a strong case that immigrant women are more susceptible to discrimination than their native counterparts in terms of obtaining a secure job in the formal sector. After controlling for a range of individual characteristics, a significant proportion of this employment disparity remained unexplained, giving credence to the existence of systematic discrimination endemic in the labor market.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; LABOR market; JOB security; WOMEN foreign workers; INTERNATIONAL marriage; TWENTY-first century; 21ST century economics; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Journal of International Migration & Integration, 2018, Vol 19, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
1488-3473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12134-017-0528-y