My dissertation consists of three essays on the Korean labor market. The first essay studies how the extensive provision of maternity leave and childcare leave in Korea affects the employment and wages of young women. This reform is expected to increase the labor supply and decrease the labor demand for young women. As a result, the mean wage of young women should fall. But the direction of the change in their employment probability is hard to infer because it depends on the relative magnitudes of the shifts of the labor supply and demand curves. A difference-in-difference-in-differences model having older women, older men, and young men simultaneously as the control group suggests that neither the employment nor the hourly wages of young women are affected. The second essay explores why married men have higher hourly earnings and employment propensity than otherwise comparable single men. In a fixed effects regression, which controls for the selection of more productive men into marriage, married men do not experience faster growth in earnings and employment rate before marriage. Rather, when marriage takes place, the earnings of married men start increasing relative to those of single men. Also, that South Korean men have a greater earnings growth after marriage than U.S. men is consistent with the national difference in the degree of specialization within married households. Married men are more likely to work than single men only for the first few years of marriage, and single men outperform married men afterwards. The final essay studies why gender differences in earnings and earnings growth exist among new Korean college graduates before women take time off of work for marriage and motherhood. I find that women do not face an initial earnings gap after graduating college compared to men who finished military service. The lower earnings that women receive can be entirely explained by the difference in age at graduation between men and women. However, women's earnings grow slower than those of men who finished military service. This is partly because a greater percentage of women graduate from colleges of education, which provide slower earnings growth than other types of colleges. Most of the gender difference in earnings growth remains unexplained. / text

Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Univ., 2002. / Härtill 6 uppsatser.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur föräldrarollen och familjesituationen påverkades av utmattningssyndrom. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats med en induktiv inriktning och datainsamlingen har bestått av åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studiens empiri har analyserats med hjälp av rollteorin och valda analytiska begrepp samt med stöd av modeller och tidigare forskning. Studiens resultat visar att föräldrarnas utmattningssyndrom påverkar föräldrarollen och familjesituationen på olika sätt. De fick svårt att leva upp till förväntningar och grundläggande uppgifter inom föräldrarollen, såsom att organisera vardagslivet och att orka finnas där för barnen. Den dysfunktion som de upplevde i sin föräldraroll ledde till att de kände otillräcklighet vilket gav upphov till skuld- och skamkänslor. Empirin visar att rollerna i familjen ofta kastas om och att föräldrarna upplever någon form av rollförlust. För de som var ensamstående var det särskilt svårt då de både hade familjeansvar och var ekonomiskt begränsade på grund av sjukskrivningen. Föräldrarnas försämrade förmågor gjorde att barnen fick ta mer ansvar, vilket inte bara var negativt utan också positivt eftersom de lärde sig att ta ansvar och i större utsträckning förlita sig på hjälp från den andra föräldern. De omständigheter som bidrog till föräldrarnas utmattningssyndrom var flerdimensionella och det var svårt att skilja den ena från den andra, att det är flera olika källor till stress som orsakar utmattning. Men resultatet visar att omständigheter såsom särskilda påfrestningar, dubbla lojaliteter och höga prestationskrav i kombination med en dålig självkänsla ökade sårbarheten för att drabbas. Studiens resultat pekar även på att det görs en distinktion mellan familj och arbete trots att forskning visar att en sjukskrivning orsakad av stress rymmer många olika dimensioner. / The purpose of the study was to investigate how parenting and family situations were affected by fatigue syndrome. The study has a qualitative approach with an inductive orientation. The data collection contained eight semi-structured interviews. The empirical data has been analysed with the role theory, analytical concepts, models and with previous science. The results of the study showed that the parents' fatigue syndrome influenced the parenting and family situation in different ways. They were struggling to perform basic duties in the parenting role, such as organizing everyday life and having the energy to be with the children. The result shows that the roles in the family often reversed and the parents experienced some form of role loss. For those who were single, it was particularly difficult when they both had family responsibilities and were financially limited due the sick leave. Parents' impaired abilities made the children take more responsibility, which was not only negative but also positive because they learned to take responsibility and to rely more on the help of the other parent. The circumstances that contributed to the fatigue syndrome of the parents were multi- dimensional and it was difficult to distinguish one from the other, there are several different sources of stress. But the results show that special circumstances like specific stresses, double loyalty and high performance requirements combined with poor self-esteem, increased vulnerability to suffering. The results of the study also indicate that a distinction is made between family and work, although research shows that sick leave due to stress can accommodate many different dimensions.

This thesis deals with possibilities the employees have when they are returning to work from maternity or parental leave. The theoretical part of the thesis analyzes different flexible working arrangements in the czech labour market and current legislation for maternity and parental leave. The practical part is focused on a comparison among selected european countries in flexible working arrangements and formal childcare for children under three years of age and from three years to the minimum compulsory school age. Also discussed is the current situation in two surveyed companies. The main objective is to confirm or disprove the stated hypotheses and create suggestions which have a positive affect on an early return from maternity and parental leave for companies and government.

This diploma thesis analyses the questions that were put in to the Gender Studies, o. p. s. online law centre between the years 2006 and 2014. This online law centre is primarily dedicated to answer questions on the topic of discrimination in the labour market, especially on issues relating to maternity or paternity leave as well as reconciliation of personal and working life. The theoretical part is devoted to putting this issue into the appropriate social and legal context. The main aim of this thesis is to answer the research question on what are the topics of the questions asked in this online law centre within the above mentioned time period, and also to determine whether men and women are interested in diverse topics. The chosen research method is quantitative content analysis. The outputs of this analysis are rather descriptive due to the high number of analysed queries. Keywords: discrimination, maternity leave, paternity leave, paternal allowance, reconciliation of personal and working life.

This diploma thesis with its subject on Comparison of legal regulation of the annual leave in the Czech Republic and other member states of the EU with respect to current judgements of the European Court of Justice offers a comparative view of legal regulations of the institute of annual leave in chosen member states of the European union and its comparison with the legal regulation of the institute of annual leave in the Czech Republic. In the first chapter this diploma thesis talks about the history and legal roots of legal regulation of annual leave in the Czech Republic with regards to legal regulation of annual leave in the legal documents of the European union. Furthermore, the first chapter of this diploma thesis provides a view of the current legal regulation of annual leave in the Czech Republic and describes individual types of the annual leave in the Czech Republic. The second chapter of this diploma thesis contains the main comparison between the legal regulations of annual leave of chosen member states and the legal regulations of annual leave of the Czech Republic. This diploma thesis seeks the similar and the different elements in the legal regulations of annual leave of the chosen member states of the European union and the legal regulation of annual leave of the Czech Republic....

Bachelor thesis "The Quality of Mother's life on Maternity and Parental Leave" deals with mothers and their satisfaction with this role. It deals with the definition of quality of life and its meaning. It also contains chapters on pregnancy, parenthood, the importance of families and the needs of mothers. It explains the concepts of maternity leave and parental leave. The aim of this work is to find out to what extent women are on maternity leave / parental leave happy and what factors contribute to this. For the practical part was chosen quantitative research, with the technique of questionnaire survey.

The parent center is currently the phenomenon, which is compared with the "State" schools or more today to discuss "the children's group" devoted less attention. And, in particular, in the section that deals with the care of children without parents. Although the parent centers help solve one of the social and political problems, the Czech Republic- the lack of places in nursery schools, in crèches, they lack support. Legislative support, support the child care area in MC without the participation of the parents. In the Czech Republic currently operates a total of 427 MC and in the Liberec region, on which I focused in the empirical part, has 21 maternity center. Of these 21 parent service center to care for children without parental involvement provides a total of 14 maternity center. And the MC feels the need to legislative support, which would be welcomed by, clearer rules for the operation of the parent center, especially in the environment of a child without the participation of the parents. This support is important in all activities that MC. Maternity Center is not just about "meeting", but also on the promotion of intergenerational cohabitation, create facilities for families with children, and last but not least, active participation to facilitate the return of women and men back into the...

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The diploma thesis focuses on the role of the media in the lives of parents on maternity and parental leave and how they satisfy their needs through use of media. The thesis is based on the uses and gratification theory and especially on the typology of media-personal interactions defined by Denis McQuail. The aim of the thesis is to find out, through twenty interviews with mothers and fathers living in the household with a child or children, for what purpose the media are used by this specific group. The thesis includes a theoretical anchoring of the approach of uses and gratification theory concerning its historical development during the 20th century, but it also focuses on its concept at present after the spread of new media. The theoretical part of the thesis also deals with the characteristics of maternity and parental leave and it tries to identify everyday activities associated with this period and its positive and negative aspects. The methodological part describes the area of qualitative research and related procedures, including the choice of data collection method, which is a semi-structured interview, and the characteristics of the research sample. The analytical part interprets the findings resulting from the data obtained through interviews with respondents. The discussion and conclusion of...