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To ensure that adolescents continue to lead healthy, well-adjusted lives—“sustainable lives”—after the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to examine the latter’s impact on various aspects of their lives compared to the socio-cultural context before the outbreak. This study used national representative data on Korean adolescents to analyze the impact of the pandemic on adolescent life from various perspectives, with a focus on gender differences. Our findings confirm that during the pandemic physical activity and sitting time for study purposes decreased, while sleeping and sitting for purposes other than studying increased, with more pronounced changes among girls. Drinking and smoking decreased and boys experienced greater decreases. The findings also indicated that the pandemic generated positive outcomes for mental health: stress, sadness/despair, and suicidal ideation decreased, which was counterintuitive to our general expectations, with a greater impact seen among girls.
Seunghee Yu; Chung Choe. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustainable Life of Korean Adolescents: Exploring Gender Differences. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8821 .
AMA StyleSeunghee Yu, Chung Choe. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustainable Life of Korean Adolescents: Exploring Gender Differences. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8821.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeunghee Yu; Chung Choe. 2021. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sustainable Life of Korean Adolescents: Exploring Gender Differences." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8821.
This paper explores the association between job satisfaction and gender for workers with disabilities, using data from the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled, which interviews officially registered persons with disabilities in Korea. To take full advantage of the longitudinal data, we apply random-effects ordered probit models to investigate the underlying factors that affect gender differentials in job satisfaction. Our findings reveal that merely different work values between women and men do not account for the significantly higher job satisfaction among women. We suggest that workers’ expectations play a role in explaining why female workers are happier in the workplace than their male counterparts; that is, holding other factors constant, women’s expectations from jobs are lower than men’s. This hypothesis is partially supported by the empirical analyses that gender differentials diminish among the highly educated workers, for whom there is less likely to be a gender gap in terms of job expectations.
Seunghee Yu; Chung Choe. Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers. PLOS ONE 2021, 16, e0252270 .
AMA StyleSeunghee Yu, Chung Choe. Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers. PLOS ONE. 2021; 16 (6):e0252270.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeunghee Yu; Chung Choe. 2021. "Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6: e0252270.
This paper evaluates whether the introduction of one-stop centres – providing integrated public employment and welfare services – contributes to the employability of local residents in Korea. Exploiting a quasi-experimental assignment of one-stop centres across 162 municipalities, we apply a spatial difference-in-difference model using the Regional Employment Survey 2013–2017. Our findings reveal that the introduction of the centres has a positive impact on the local employment rate of female residents but not that of their male counterparts.
Koangsung Choi; Chung Choe; Dongwoo Kang. Impact of introducing one-stop employment service centres on local employment in South Korea. Applied Economics Letters 2020, 28, 281 -286.
AMA StyleKoangsung Choi, Chung Choe, Dongwoo Kang. Impact of introducing one-stop employment service centres on local employment in South Korea. Applied Economics Letters. 2020; 28 (4):281-286.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKoangsung Choi; Chung Choe; Dongwoo Kang. 2020. "Impact of introducing one-stop employment service centres on local employment in South Korea." Applied Economics Letters 28, no. 4: 281-286.
This paper draws upon influence function regression methods to determine where foreign workers stand in the distribution of private sector wages in Luxembourg, and assess whether and how much their wages contribute to wage inequality. This is quantified by measuring the effect that a marginal increase in the proportion of foreign workers—foreign residents or cross-border workers—would have on selected quantiles and measures of inequality. Analysis of the 2006 Structure of Earnings Survey reveals that foreign workers have generally lower wages than natives and therefore tend to haul the overall wage distribution downwards. Yet, their influence on wage inequality reveals small and negative. All impacts are further muted when accounting for human capital and, especially, job characteristics. Not observing any large positive inequality contribution on the Luxembourg labour market is a striking result given the sheer size of the foreign workforce and its polarization at both ends of the skill distribution.
Chung Choe; Philippe Van Kerm. Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal? Econometrics 2018, 6, 41 .
AMA StyleChung Choe, Philippe Van Kerm. Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal? Econometrics. 2018; 6 (3):41.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChung Choe; Philippe Van Kerm. 2018. "Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal?" Econometrics 6, no. 3: 41.
Seeun Jung; Chung Choe; Ronald L. Oaxaca. Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment: An experimental analysis. Labour Economics 2018, 52, 112 -121.
AMA StyleSeeun Jung, Chung Choe, Ronald L. Oaxaca. Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment: An experimental analysis. Labour Economics. 2018; 52 ():112-121.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSeeun Jung; Chung Choe; Ronald L. Oaxaca. 2018. "Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment: An experimental analysis." Labour Economics 52, no. : 112-121.
The paper develops a parametric variant of the Machado–Mata simulation methodology to examine quantile wage differences between groups of workers, with an application to the wage gap between native and foreign workers in Luxembourg. Relying on conditional-likelihood-based ‘parametric quantile regression’ in place of the standard linear quantile regression is parsimonious and cuts computing time drastically with no loss in the accuracy of marginal quantile simulations in our application. We find that the native worker advantage is a concave function of quantile: the advantage is small (possibly negative) for both low and high quantiles, but it is large for the middle half of the quantile range (between the 20th and 70th native wage percentiles).
Philippe Van Kerm; Seunghee Yu; Chung Choe. Decomposing quantile wage gaps: a conditional likelihood approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 2016, 65, 507 -527.
AMA StylePhilippe Van Kerm, Seunghee Yu, Chung Choe. Decomposing quantile wage gaps: a conditional likelihood approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). 2016; 65 (4):507-527.
Chicago/Turabian StylePhilippe Van Kerm; Seunghee Yu; Chung Choe. 2016. "Decomposing quantile wage gaps: a conditional likelihood approach." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 65, no. 4: 507-527.
The presence of foreign workers is commonly deemed as driving wage inequality upwards. By 2006, seven in ten private sector workers in Luxembourg were foreign.
Chung Choe; Philippe Van Kerm. Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: Where Do They Fit in? SSRN Electronic Journal 2014, 1 .
AMA StyleChung Choe, Philippe Van Kerm. Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: Where Do They Fit in? SSRN Electronic Journal. 2014; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChung Choe; Philippe Van Kerm. 2014. "Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: Where Do They Fit in?" SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.