국가개입과 사회적 합의 정도에 의한 국가 간 자격제도의 유형화

The every country’s qualification system has been developed based on its socio-economic background, characteristics of labor market and VET system, industrial relation and HRM system. These factors which affect the qualification system are different among countries, so qualification systems naturally would be different among countries. In this paper, I categorized the qualification systems of nine countries by state intervention and social consultation using K-mean clustering analysis. The result shows that Korea is market-driven country next to the Unite States, which means that state intervention and social consultation are very weak. Denmark, France and Australia are coordinated state-led type which means that both of state intervention and social consultation are strong. Germany is social consultation country, while Sweden and the U.K. are located in the middle in both of two categories. Japan is very similar to Korean type. However, the relation between type of qualification system and labor market performance like labor participation rate and employment rate is not relevant. This means that every country’s qualification system has its diversity within converging trend. To learn best implication from other advanced countries, we should understand those countries’ speciality and generality of the qualification systems simultaneously. And, we should build up our strong points in the qualification system.