Analysis of Structure of Korean Female Labor / Labor Market

There have been plentiful papers investigated the gender difference of labor market outcomes. Some of experts argued it is historically true that female is weak in the market as their nature. However, the gender differences in labor outputs wouldn’t come from their own decision. Data of job training for Korean female shows strong evidence of this circumstance. Given this evidence lead us to consider market structure and rule of decision making in this market as an institution would render a fine intuition to help understand the puzzle of structure of labor market in Korea with regarding female labor. Through the model I try to incorporate systematic problem of female labor market with decision process of an employee and an employer. In order to do so, I took the child care support as a crucial variable in the model. The model shows interesting result that if employers support female labor then the probability of be in labor market is increase and it affect on wage and profit in positive way. It implicitly explains why Korean female labor has lower proportion of job training and wage compare to male