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 since 1970 by the Ministry of Labor. The dataset contains detailed information on individual workers' earnings, hours worked, educational attainment, experience, occupation, industry, and region, representing approximately one-half of South Korea's total nonagricultural labor force. The provided samples cover selected years from 1971 to 1998.
Use Cases
Modeling wage differentials based on educational attainment and labor market experience.
Analyzing occupational and industrial wage structures over time.
Studying regional labor market disparities within South Korea.
Investigating the impact of survey methodology changes, such as the post-1986 industry exclusion.
Strengths
Data spans multiple decades (1971-1998), enabling longitudinal analysis.
Sampling method is described as stratified random sampling of establishments with at least ten workers.
Includes multiple worker-level variables such as 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.