The Effect of Tutoring Center Instructors' Job Factors on Employment Insecurity: Focusing on the Dual Labor Market Theory

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of tutoring center instructors' job factors on employment insecurity. To this end, an empirical analysis was performed on the employment insecurity of tutoring center instructors based on the dual labor market theory by conducting a survey. In order to achieve the research objectives, a survey was performed with 215 tutoring center instructors with more than one year of teaching experience. The results of analyzing are as follows: first, there was no statistically significant difference in the research subjects' employment insecurity according to their personal factors, while a significant difference was found depending on their professional experience and lecture subjects. Second, the job factors of the tutoring center instructors were found to affect their employment insecurity: employment insecurity was higher in instructors with a lower wage, those working at a smaller institution, and those without employment insurance. In other words, tutoring center instructors who work at a small institute for a low wage without social benefits such as employment insurance show higher employment insecurity. This indicates that the dual structure of the job market is also applied to the occupational group of tutoring center instructors. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to tutoring center instructors working at smaller institutions for a lower wage and to provide expanded employment insurance programs for tutoring centers.