In the midst of last year’s Corona 19, the domestic tourism industry was hit by a direct hit, and on the 17th of this month, tourist buses stopped at the Tancheon parking lot in Songpa-gu, Seoul. yunhap news
For the first time in the Moon Jae-in administration, wage inequality among workers was found to have intensified. It is an analysis that the’K-shaped polarization’ was triggered as the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) last year was concentrated on the vulnerable workers.
According to a report on’Changes in Wage Inequality by Region’ by the Korea Employment Information Service on the 24th, the Gini coefficient of domestic workers’ wages last year was 0.306, up 0.012 from 2019 (0.294). The Gini coefficient, a representative distribution index representing wage inequality, is expressed as a value between 0 and 1. If the distribution is completely equal, it is 0, and if it is completely unequal, it is 1. The closer to 1, the higher the degree of inequality.
The Gini coefficient of wages was 0.335 in 2016, but fell to 0.317 in 2017, the first year of the Moon Jae-in administration. Since then, the decline continued to 0.309 in 2018 and 0.294 in 2019, but it rebounded for the first time last year. Regionally, wage inequality also showed a tendency to increase. The Gini coefficient increased in all regions except Gangwon (0.294), Ulsan (0.294), and Sejong (0.287). Among them, inequality in wages increased in the order of Incheon (0.295), Jeju (0.301), Chungnam (0.295), and Daegu (0.298).
Researcher Cho Min-soo, a researcher at the Employment Information Service, who wrote the report, analyzed that “the increase in the number of confirmed corona19 patients and social distancing seems to have a great influence on the wage inequality of workers.” “Wage inequality has increased in areas where there are few jobs available to work from home and the proportion of face-to-face services such as tourism, leisure, and lodging is high,” he said. He suggested.
By gender, education level, and age group, the Gini coefficient increased by about 0.01 or more in 2020 compared to 2019 in all classes except’junior high school graduates and under’. In particular, in the case of the young people under the age of 29 and the group with high school graduates, the Gini coefficient in 2020 increased by 0.017 and 0.016, respectively, compared to the previous year, indicating that inequality was relatively severe.
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