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Measuring Discrimination In South Korea: Underestimating The Prevalence Of Discriminatory Experiences Among Female And Less Educated Workers?., Seung-Sup Kim, Yeonseung Chung, David R. Williams Jan 2012

Measuring Discrimination In South Korea: Underestimating The Prevalence Of Discriminatory Experiences Among Female And Less Educated Workers?., Seung-Sup Kim, Yeonseung Chung, David R. Williams

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Objectives

To investigate the possibility that Koreans show different patterns in reporting discriminatory experiences based on their gender and education level, we analyzed the participants who answered “Not Applicable” for the questions of discriminatory experiences that they were eligible to answer.

Methods

Discriminatory experiences in eight social situations were assessed using the 7th wave of Korean Labor and Income Panel Study. After restricting the study population to waged workers, a logistic regression model was constructed to predict the probability that an individual has experienced discrimination based on the observed covariates for each of eight situations, using the data of participants …