This study analyzed the determinants of the regular and non-regular employees` willingness to join the labor unions by using the ``panel logit random effect model`` after combing the Korean Labor and Income Panel Data (KLIPS) (6th~13th). As for the wi...
This study analyzed the determinants of the regular and non-regular employees` willingness to join the labor unions by using the ``panel logit random effect model`` after combing the Korean Labor and Income Panel Data (KLIPS) (6th~13th). As for the willingness of joining labor unions which is a dependent variable, the variables such as gender, age, business size, wage, job satisfaction, union satisfaction, turnover intention, job type (production and technical posts) had a statistically significant effect on the regular employees, while the variables such as age, education (graduate diploma), business size, employment stability, union satisfaction, turnover intention, job type (production and technical posts) had a significant effect on non-regular employees. While the variables such as age, business size, turnover intention, job type (production and technical posts) had a statistically significant effect on the willingness of joining labor unions in both of the regular and non regular employees regardless of the employment type, the variables such as gender, wage, education, employment stability were found to have an effect differently depending on the employment type. In addition, as a result of analyzing the odds ratio to investigate the extent to which each variable has effect on the willingness of joining labor unions, the regular employees were affected by the variables in the order of union satisfaction (3.2 times), turnover intention (1.9 times), gender (1.5 times), and business size (large businesses, 1.5 times; medium sized businesses, 1.3 times), while the non-regular employees were affected by the variables in the order of union satisfaction (3.6 times), business size (large businesses, 3.0 times; medium-sized businesses, 2.0 times), turnover intention (1.9 times), and job type (production and technical posts, 1.8 times). Therefore, in order to increase the non-regular employees` willingness to join labor unions, there is a need to increase union satisfaction as a priority, and the characteristics of the regular and non-regular employees by employment type need to be considered. Additionally, it has been analyzed that 24% of the non-union members have the willingness to join labor unions although the rate of joining unions is continuously decreasing, In order to connect these potential demands to joining labor unions, there is a need to expand the range of joining regular employees` labor unions to non-regular employees as well as providing labor unions actively for the workplaces without a labor union.