신혼 여성근로자의 노동시장 이탈에 영향을 미치는 요인: 일자리 특성을 중심으로

This study used the data from the 4th to 21st Korean Labor and Income Panel Studies(2001-2018) to investigate labor market withdrawal over the course of time after marriage in female workers getting first married during the period concerned and analyze the factors affecting the exit. The analysis confirmed that most of the temporary workers left the labor market within two years after getting married and that those with relatively better jobs, including regular ones, were relatively less likely to leave the labor market but significantly less likely to maintain their career in the labor market, compared with men at similar occupational positions. As for various factors for labor market withdrawal in newly-married female workers, women’s leaving the labor market after getting married is more likely to be caused by the structural characteristics, such as discrimination against married women in the labor market, rather than by spontaneous choice, giving consideration to the spouse’s characteristics or the financial situation of the household. On the basis of the results of the empirical analysis, emphasis was placed on the importance of career discontinuity prevention policies, not on the support of workers experiencing labor force withdrawal and the need for the efforts to accumulate more accurate data regarding the effects of the details of the life events, such as marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth, and resolve the structural discrimination in the labor market more positively was suggested with the objective of making more effective measures to prevent career discontinuity.