일본의 저출산 극복을 위한 일ㆍ가정 양립 지원정책 분석을 통한 한국 저출산정책의 함의－육아ㆍ개호휴업법 개정내용을 중심으로－

This thesis investigates Childcare-familycare leave system, which is one of important welfare policies to overcome low-fertility in Japan. The Childcare-family care leave system was essentially introduced for working women to achieve their work-family balance. However, statistics shows that low-fertility phenomenon in Japan is still under going. Recently, government enriched Childcare-familycare leave system to change the trend. According to the Childcare-family leave law revised in 2004, effective in 2005, the policies include fixed-term contracts workers as beneficiary, extend childcare leave periods, loosen the limitation to care times, and create a leave for child sickness care. This systematic approach, which contains adjustment for labor market by reducing labor hours as well as support for childcare, gives a meaningful signal to Korean policies to defeat low-fertility. As a result, couples of analytic indicators of Childcare-familycare leave, which can possibly support work-family balance to overcome low-fertility, are as follows. By analysing Childcare and familycare system, I would like to solve these problems. First, can she keep up with the work? Second, is it possible to take care her children? Finally, is she/he child custody participation which is gender equality possible? Based on results of this analysis, I would like to give some advices on policies to overcome low-fertility in Korea.