Business Cycle and Occupational Accidents in Korea

Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual occupational transitions using the algorithm proposed by Moscar...

The association between subjective socioeconomic status and health inequity in victims of occupational accidents in Korea

OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the health inequity of victims of occupational accidents through the association between socioeconomic status and unmet healthcare need. METHODS Data from the first and second Panel Study of Workers' Compensation Insurance were used, which included 1,803 participants. The odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals for the unmet healthcare needs of participants ...

Structural Change and Business Cycle: Evidence from Taiwan and Korea

This paper explores the feature of business cycle across breaks in Taiwan and Korea. We employed tests devised by Bai and Perron (2003) to show that, for Taiwan’s business cycle, two breaks are present. In contrast, one break is revealed in the economic restructuring process in Korea. Moreover, the feature of business cycle process across breaks is congruent with the real business cycle theory.

Safety Climate and Occupational Stress According to Occupational Accidents Experience and Employment Type in Shipbuilding Industry of Korea

BACKGROUND Safety climate and occupational stress are related with occupational accident. The present study tried to identify the differences in safety climate and occupational stress according to occupational accidents experience and employment type (e.g., direct workers and subcontract workers). METHODS In this study, we conducted a survey using safety climate scale and Korean Occupational ...

Business Cycle Features In The Iranian Economy