The results of this research project included publication of academic journals and academic books, and presentations at domestic and international conferences. To summarize the achievements published in academic journals for three years, a total of ei ...
The results of this research project included publication of academic journals and academic books, and presentations at domestic and international conferences. To summarize the achievements published in academic journals for three years, a total of eight papers were published in domestic journals.
In order to achieve the research objectives of the first year, the research team has been working on the current position of local employment policies and Korea's unemployment safety net in resolving the various types of employment and work that have emerged or expanded in the youth labor market, and the youth labor market. On the subject of adaptation to Korea, various research activities such as joint seminars, related expert consultations, and presentations at academic conferences were conducted. Based on these activities, the research results of the first year were published in domestic journals and domestic academic journals.
In this process, Korea faced the worst youth unemployment problem in its history and discussed whether a regional employment policy could be possible as an alternative in the reality that the limits of central government-level policies were revealed. Currently when related policies are being developed, the local employment policy developed and implemented by local governments in response to the youth unemployment problem was in-depth reviewed. By analyzing the characteristics of the youth employment policy and how the youth employment policy is implemented and functioning as a regional employment policy, this study attempted to evaluate the possibility that the Seoul youth employment policy could solve the youth unemployment problem with the regional employment policy. Through this, the study derives the implications that the regional employment policy requires active consideration of four aspects in solving the problems of the Korean youth labor market.
In addition, the researcher submitted the thesis “International Comparative Study on Unemployment Safety Net: Unemployment Insurance, Social Assistance, and Active Labor Market Policy System Union and Typology” in the journal “Korean Social Policy”, and this was published in March 2018. This paper used fuzzy set ideal analysis and analyzed the'unemployment security net policy set' as an institutional arrangement of unemployment insurance, social assistance, and active labor market policies in 12 OECD countries, and concretely the similarities and specificities of each paper. And it compared and analyzed how the relevant countries formed social security policies for the unemployed to respond to their unemployment and income security issues. Through this, we ultimately gained implications for the design of the Korean labor market and unemployment safety net in the future, and examined the context of the welfare system related to the instability of the youth labor market. As a result of the analysis, from 2005 to 2010, as time passed,'re-entry type','re-entry and income guarantee combination type','re-entry concentration type','extensive unemployment safety net type','poor unemployment safety net type','income guarantee type' Five to six types of labor market policy associations were found, and the classification of countries was somewhat different from those of countries according to the existing welfare state regime discussion. In particular, Sweden was classified as an iaP type together with Germany in 2005, and in 2010, it was classified as an IaP type with France and Spain. In 2005, the US was of the iap type, such as Italy, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom, but in 2010, it was classified as an Iap type. In the case of Korea, the unemployment safety net was consistently poor, and the fuzzy scores of social insurance, social assistance, and active labor market were all at the bottom when compared with the countries in this study. Even in the poor unemployment safety net type, when looking at the specific scores for each policy, the scores for social assistance policies were rather high and the scores for active labor market policies were very low. In the case of Hangu, which belongs to the poor unemployment safety net type, relying on the income security system based on the asset-testing method to provide benefits is the least financially burdensome policy, and the analysis results also showed a tendency to expand. It raised the question of how long this could have a lasting effect on guaranteeing the income of unstable and unemployed workers, contributing to theoretical and empirical discussions on comparative research on the unemployment safety net by conducting a comparative study between countries, and analyzing policies related to unemployment in a combination. It is intended to provide implications for designing an unemployment safety net that is consistent with future changes in the labor market.
The main contents of the second year's study were to identify changes in the Korean youth labor market and related unstable youth worker groups, analyze the causes of them in a multidimensional manner, and analyze the instability of the youth labor market in relation to the labor market system. Ultimately, by analyzing the relationship between the institutional composition of the Korean welfare production system and the instability of the youth labor market, an integrated approach and theorization will be attempted on the instability of the labor market. To achieve this purpose, this study conducted various research activities on the subject of youth labor market and welfare policy, qualitative research, including joint seminars, international symposiums, related expert consultations, and presentations at academic conferences and published in an academic journal.
First of all, as a qualitative study, a thesis “Quality Study on the Unstable Employment Relationship and Social Security Experience of Call Center Subcontractors” was published in the “Korea Social Security Research” in May 2019. This paper focused on call center workers as a new employment relationship and form of work in the youth labor market, and conducted a study to analyze their labor and social safety net experiences. The employment structure of call center subcontractors, which is expanding to female youth and senior citizens, is a representative example of changes in the labor market following the transition to a service economy. Therefore, by analyzing the unstable working environment and social safety net experiences of call center subcontractors through a qualitative study, we tried to review and discuss the coherence between the social security system and the subcontracted labor market. Call center workers were experiencing a high level of instability in their work, and despite the existence of legal systems, there was no reality that they could actually be used, leading to high inconsistency with the social security system.
Next,“Deabating Basic Income” jointly written by researchers and research assistants, was published in “Korean Social Policy” in September 2018. The main content of this thesis is to examine the validity of criticism on basic income. Basic income, a universal form of income security that is not linked to employment and wages, is proposed as one of the alternatives to solve the inconsistency between the traditional social security system and the changing labor market. Therefore, it could be said that examining the discussions related to basic income has important implications in the process of reviewing and designing the consistency of youth's unstable labor market and social security system.
The third year's research expanded the research conducted in the first and second years to elaborately analyze the causal relationship of diversity in the youth labor market, compare and analyze the details of specific youth policies of each country, and diversified youth labor. It proposed a redesign direction of the Korean social security system that responds most to the market and resolves the instability of the youth labor market.
Through “Duplicating the Korean Double Labor Market and the Retirement Income Guarantee System: A Simulation Analysis of the Public Pension Reform Plan”, how the gap in the level of retirement income guarantee according to the segmented structure of the Korean double labor market will differ according to various reform proposals of the public pension system. In particular, a simulation analysis was conducted using data from the Korean Labor Panel to analyze how each public pension reform plan alleviates or deepens the gap in the segmented labor market. The gap in the guarantee of retirement income due to the segmentation of the labor market was identified, and four reform proposals to effectively reduce the gap in income through public pensions were discussed. In order for the public pension system to achieve its natural functions of guaranteeing income and social redistribution, it is necessary to propose a plan for pension reform that addresses the problem of the gap in the dual labor market and at the same time melts the integrated concerns about the security and redistribution function of the public pension. Insisted.
“Qualitative research on the work method and social security system experience of Korean youth freelancers” was written by the researcher with other research assistants, and the research was conducted by paying attention to freelancers in the form of new work experienced by youth. The characteristics of Lancer's work, the instability experienced by freelancers in the labor market, and the experience of the social security system were specifically analyzed through a qualitative case study, which focuses on freelancers and analyzes their work experience in three dimensions. And, by grasping how the social safety net works in the freelance labor market, the inconsistency with the Korean social safety net, designed around the standard employment relationship, was analyzed.The results of this study show that young freelancers in Korea have unclear contract relationships and low bargaining power. He pointed out that it was difficult to guarantee basic rights as a worker, and income instability was high due to frequent disconnection of workmanship and uncertainty about the continuity of work, but it was difficult to apply the concept of'unemployment'. The use of these media was very high, but the use of these media made them feel pressured to always be connected and engaged in sales activities, and the concept of work and rest was analyzed to be ambiguous. In the meantime, it explains the characteristics of freelancers' flexibility of work place and time, irregularity in income, ambiguity between unemployment and employment, and ambiguity between work and rest, and the implications that the analysis results can give to the institutional improvement of the Korean social security system. Discussed.
Finally, in order to understand the welfare politics of social investment strategy, the researcher wrote the thesis “Why was the social investment strategy of the progressive regime expanded in the conservative regime?- The policy feedback function and policy visibility of the Korean political system”. How it is affected by the salience of this Korean political system and policy, and how it changes before and after the election was analyzed from an institutional perspective. The analysis results are as follows. The “social investment strategy” proposed during the progressive regime in order to cope with rapidly changing demographic changes and increasing labor market inequality was introduced with persuasive power to both the political right and left as a policy compromise. In addition, these childcare-related policies were influenced by the institutional unions of the small-election districts and the winner-take-all election system and the president-centered political system in Korea, and were expanded with more universality after being replaced by a conservative government.
The thesis “The Labor Process of the Korean Platform Labor Market and the Inconsistency of the Social Security System” confirmed that the Korean platform labor market expanded within a short period of time, and that there was diversity in platform labor. Their common point is to use the platform to trade labor, and the following differences were observed depending on the type of platform labor. First, the delivery platform was mainly a four-party relationship, and the housekeeping service and the freelance platform were brokered through a three-party relationship. second , The intensity of control and intervention on platform labor by platform companies was strong in the order of delivery platform-housekeeping service platform-freelance platform. Third, with regard to the experience of the social security system, there was a need for income security in common, but differences were mainly found in the area of industrial accident insurance. In the light of the research results, it can be confirmed that the problem of inconsistency between platform labor and social security system does not arise only from the ambiguous worker status of platform labor. Differences depending on the type of platform labor, such as the issue of recognition of the status of workers, the issue of calculating the work-related hours, the issue of ambiguity in the judgment of occupational accidents when applying industrial accident insurance, the difference in needs for social insurance, etc. It needs to be considered in the discussion of alternatives to solve the problem of gender mismatch. In this study, in the short term, in the case of delivery platform workers, the plan is to be included in the category of workers, for domestic service platform labor, the expansion of special high position and the application of the time proportional principle in social security, and freelance platform labor are vocational training and education services. It was suggested that it is necessary to increase accessibility of the hospital and respond to the problem of income loss due to illness and disability through the introduction of injuries and illnesses.