한국 화이트칼라 전일제 정규직 임금근로자의 야간초과근무에 관한 연구: 2014년과 2019년 생활시간조사 비교 분석

In 2018, the South Korean government implemented the so-called 52-Hour Workweek Policy to curb South Korea’s ternacious problem of long work time practices. This study purposes to delve into how the policy changes both quantitiy and quality of the overtime work hours and what are, or would be, the implications of these changes, if any, on the Korean society and family life. Based on the 2014 and 2019 KTUS (Korean Time Use Survey) data, this paper analyses how full-time white collar wage earners’ overtime work after the regular hours differs by gender, by whether to work overtime, and by where to work overtime, how the differences affect each subgroup members’ lives, and how these features in 2014 data changed in 2019 data. We find that the percentage of overtime workers and the average of entire sample’s overtime hours decreased in from 2014 to 2019, but the average overtime hours of overtime workers have not been changed. Also we find that overtime work at the workplace decreased while overtime work at home or indoors increased in 2019 compared to 2014. Maybe the policy has been conducted in the form of limiting just the amount of working hours at workplace rather than leading to actual workload reduction. Regression analyses indicate that male had longer overtime hours than female and professionals than office workers. Finally the results of another regression analyses using the subjective feelings of well-being as the dependent variables confirm the common sense predictions.