This study analyzed an impact of family background on youth’s upward labor transition, whose ages are from twenty five years old to twenty nine years old. Workers in labor market experience labor transitions due to many reasons, and this applies eq... This study analyzed an impact of family background on youth’s upward labor transition, whose ages are from twenty five years old to twenty nine years old. Workers in labor market experience labor transitions due to many reasons, and this applies equally to youth labor workers after their entrance to labor market. Prior research on labor transition have primarily focused on intergenerational income and education mobilities. Accordingly, it has been somewhat difficult to comprehend facts of labor transition which a group of youth practically experience with even before the youth generates an income. Furthermore, there has been problems with thoroughly capturing an impact of family background beyond youth’s income or education level. In light of these limits of former research, this will specifically focus on youth group and on its labor market transition. In addition, the figures out that family background actually has an impact on achieving good work among the youth. According to prior theoretical discussion, the factors that have impacts on youth’s upward labor transition are analyzed as labor supply factor, labor demand factor, and family background’s socio-economic status index(SES) respectively. To capture labor transition of youth, ‘Youth Panel’ provided from Korea Employment information Service was used. Socio-economic status index was induced from total household labor income and parents’ work status and occupations. Methodologically, logit regression analysis is employed to analyze the impacts of SES of family background. The results of analysis indicates that the SES of family background have statistically meaningful impacts on upward labor transition of the youth. In other words, as the youth’s SES, which includes total household labor income and parents’ work status and occupations, gets higher then the person tends to achieve regular work escaped from unemployment or non-regular work. Also, it is favorable for the person to continuously sustain one’s regular work. These results support discussions of the prior research that as parents’ income level or work positions are higher, their child also tends to stay in high-level income. This study suggests that the impacts of family background are still meaningful even after the analysis controlled effects of individual youth’s gender, age, education, and marriage status, which were discussed as major factors that might have impacts on youth labor transition. In this course, various factors would have some roles to help the SES influence youth’s upward labor transition. Based on parents’ affluent economic resources, high level education, and personal networking, a child can get supports and investments from the parents. This leads to higher possibilities of attaining high level education that is becoming higher compensation value in labor market, and of getting good occupations as regular work. In light of psychosocial aspect, more democratic way of parenting style, high level of achievement motivation or self-esteem built up by psychological intimacy with youth’s parents, and life culture shared by people of high level of socio-economic status group would work as channels for family background to meaningfully influence youth labor transition. Major implications of this study are as in the following. First of all, considering lack of research covering youth transition in labor market, this study put its focus on youth group and analyzed their labor transition empirically. Furthermore, by clarifying that the SES of family background have positive impacts on sustaining or achieving good quality job even when effects of other factors-gender, age, education, and marriage status-were removed, the study result suggests that due to family background there are gaps among youth group even before generation of income as a reward in labor market. In the end, the result implies that preceding egalitarian policies including educational and socio-economic policies actually do not perform effectively, and there is a need for new policies that alleviate class stratification derived from social, cultural, and psychosocial resources of family background. In conclusion, this study has its value as it draws attention to a relationship between family background and youth labor transition by identifying that the SES has empirical impacts on youth’s upward labor transition. Regarding this result, it needs to be noticed that labor market of youth might already became as segmented or dual labor market, and various factors-parents’ economic resource, education level, and psychosocial aspect-would make the impact of family background on youth labor transition get bigger.
본 논문은 2010년과 2014년에 집안배경이 만 25세에서 29세 사이 청년층의 노동시장에서의 상향 노동이동에 영향을 미치는 영향요인을 분석하였다. 취업자들은 노동시장에서 여러 요인들로 인... |
