The Korea Local Administration Review

Korean government, desperate in creating more jobs, recently has initiatedvarious employment policies including ‘2020 National Employment Strategy’ andhas mandated local governments’ ‘Public Announcement of New Job Creation’aiming at creating more jobs in Korea. Most local governments, however, areconcentrating on increasing number of jobs but ignoring quality of jobs, whichcan be detrimental to future jobs in Korea. In order to maintain ‘good jobs’ inKorea, we need to understand the factors which can help us creating ‘goodjobs’ and cause transition between ‘good jobs’ and ‘not good jobs’.In this study, using KLIPS data, we analyzed the determining factors of ‘goodjobs’ and transition between ‘good jobs’ and ‘not good jobs’ during 1997 and2007 using logit model and derived political implication from the results. Thefindings are as follows: First, education level, sex, job categories, and previousyear’s job quality affects the probability of holding good job. Second, female,blue collar, small size enterprises, nonregular workers, and those with ‘not goodjobs’ in previous year have lower probability of getting goods. Third, there isn’tany significant regional effects on the transition between ‘good jobs’ and ‘notgood jobs’.