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A Study on Determinants Influencing in Adopting Maternity Protection Policies Korean in Firms and their Impact on the Firm's Performance Gyu-Chang YuHyang-Ah KimThis study has been conducted under the circumstances which the proportion of the working women is increasing as well as the maternity protection is becoming an important key factor in Korean society. The purpose of this study was to examine determinants influencing in adopting the maternity protection policy in firms and the relationship between the maternity protection policy and the firm's performance. This study analyzed the survey data (WPS:workplace panel survey) conducted by the Korea Labor Institute in 2003 using regression analyses based on 1287 firms' data. The results are as follows. First, the higher portion of female employees in firm, the stronger network among firms, and the larger size of firm, the higher possibility firms tend to adopt the maternity protection policies. Second, the results indicated that there were statistically significant relationship between the extent of adopting the maternity protection policies and the firm's performance in terms of productivity and turnover. As conclusions, we discussed that while the Korean firms introduce the maternity protection policy to seek legitimacy such as the rational pressure, at the same time they also consider the efficiency such as the utilization of female resources in aspect of change on environment of workplace.

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