South Korean Occupational Wage Survey: Worker Earnings and Demographics, 1971-1998
by Yana van der Meulen Rodgers / Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
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Description
South Korea's Occupational Wage Survey (OWS) is an annual business establishment survey conducted by the Ministry of Labor. The dataset contains detailed information on individual workers' earnings, hours worked, educational attainment, experience, occupation, industry, and region. Samples for the years 1971, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, and 1998 are randomly drawn from the original surveys, representing approximately one-half of South Korea's total nonagricultural labor force.
Use Cases
Modeling wage determinants based on educational attainment and labor market experience.
Analyzing wage inequality trends across different occupations and industries.
Studying the evolution of the South Korean labor market over a multi-decade period.
Comparing regional wage disparities within South Korea.
Strengths
Data spans multiple decades, covering 10 survey years from 1971 to 1998.
Uses a stratified random sampling method for establishment selection.
Contains detailed worker-level variables including earnings, hours, education, experience, occupation, industry, and region.
Limitations
Excludes workers in small enterprises, the self-employed, family workers, temporary workers, and public sector workers.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
South Korea's Ministry of Labor, compiled by Yana van der Meulen Rodgers.
Collection Method
Annual business establishment survey using stratified random sampling of establishments with at least ten workers.