The purpose of this study is to empirically analyse the double discrimination on the elderly with disabilities in the labor market due to age and disabilities and secondly by this research, is to give an employment policies for the disabled and for th...
The purpose of this study is to empirically analyse the double discrimination on the elderly with disabilities in the labor market due to age and disabilities and secondly by this research, is to give an employment policies for the disabled and for the aged the policy implications. To achieve this research goal, it is tested that empirical differential in the employment probabilities(regular job, temporary job, unemployed) and the wage(time wage) of the elderly disabled group(50-64 years old, below "ED") exist comparing them of the young disabled group(15-49 years old, below "YD") and the elderly non-disability(50-64 years old, below "END"). If there were real gaps between groups due to age and disabilities, we can decompose them into the characteristics gap and the discrimination gap and verify the double discrimination on the elderly with disabilities in the labor market.
Data are merged and used from the 2008 Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing(KLoSA) and the 2008 Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled(PSED). Empirical differentials in the employment probabilities are tested by the multiple logistic and those of the wage are tested by the linear regressions. The differential Decompositions between groups are applied by the Oaxaca(1973).
The study results are as followings. First, real gaps are only appeared between ED and YD. The whether eld or not as dependent valuable has statistically significant effects on the regular job/unemployment (p<.1) and wage levels(p<.05). But The whether disability or not as dependent valuable doesn't have statistically significant effects on the employment and wage levels. Real gaps aren't surely appeared between ED and END. So, it is not true that the elderly with disabilities take double discriminations in the labor market due to age and disabilities.
Second, The YD's regular job employment probabilities are 43.81% and 32.07% are those for the ED, so the gaps of regular employment probabilities between two groups are 11.74%. By the differential Decompositions, the 7.96% gaps are due to the characteristics and 3.78% gaps are due to age discrimination. In conclusion, the age discrimination in the regular employment is identified and is due to largely characteristic gaps than discrimination ones.
Third, if total differential gaps of the wage level between YD and ED were 100%, the 7.95% gaps are due to the characteristics and 92.05% gaps are due to age discrimination. So in the wage level, age discrimination on the ED is very high. It is appeared that the human capital variables, especially ADL(84.96%) affect highly the age discrimination.
The employment policy implications for the disabled and the aged through the above findings are as follows. First, Providing employment promotion subsidies, the additional incentives for ED's worker need as low-income subsidies policies. Second, it needs consideration that the abolition of the exemption permission from the minimum wages applied to the watchful and intermittent workers. Third, the double count needs to be applied to the employment policies for the aged when standard employment rates are calculated. Fourth, labor supply support measures should be taken synthetically such as development of various occupations, job counseling, job training and job placement. Fifth, it requires the integration between the employment policies for the disabled and those for the aged because the whether disability or not as dependent valuable doesn't have statistically significant effects on the employment and wage levels.