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In the middle of last year’s Crown 19, the domestic tourism industry was hit by a direct hit, and on the 17th of this month, tour buses stopped at Tancheon parking lot in Songpa-gu, Seoul. Yunhap news
For the first time in Moon Jae-in’s administration, wage inequality among workers was found to have intensified. It is an analysis that the ‘K-shaped polarization’ was unleashed when the aftermath of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) last year was concentrated on 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, 0.012 more than in 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 greater the degree of inequality.
Gini’s wage coefficient 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 rebounded for the first time last year. Wage inequality also tended to increase by region. 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 with the Labor Information Service, who wrote the report, analyzed that “the increase in the number of confirmed patients with corona19 and social distancing seems to have a great influence on the wage inequality of workers. “Pay inequality has increased in areas where there are few jobs available to work from home and the share of face-to-face services such as tourism, recreation and accommodation is high,” he said.
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 “ high school graduates and younger. ” In particular, in the case of young people under 29 years of age 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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