성별 임금격차의 현상과 원인에 대한 연구

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the trend of gender wage differences in Korea since the 1998 financial crisis and identify reasons behind the stagnation of the gender wage differences using the 1998～2008 KLIPS(Korea Labor and Income Panel Survey). The deeping wage gap between the regular and non-regular workers is the major reason of the stagnation since female workers are more likely to be non-regular workers compare to male workers. Thus, even though a substantial portion of female workers landed successfully in the male dominated, high quality jobs such as managers, public officials, and teachers, still the gender wage gap is not moving forwardly. Other important findings are following; At first, the gender wage difference due to education level between male and female workers has been reduced since the 1998. Second, the gender wage difference due to the difference in job duration and firm's size is very stable after the financial crisis. Third, the explanation power of the differences in industry has increased from 1.64% in 1998 to 9.44% in 2008. Thus, we need to enhance the quality of women's job as well as the employment/population ratio.