기능지역(functional area)개념을 활용한 지역고용 정책권역 설정에 관한 연구- 수도권 지역을 중심으로 -

In this empirical study we delineate ‘local employment policy functional areas’ and examine its characteristics. Relying on both ‘2008 Local Area Labour Force Survey’ and ‘2005 Population and Housing Census’, we delineate local employment policy functional areas based on criteria which are travel-to-work rate, number of productive population, adjacent areas and administrative districts. We find that there are 10 local lemployment policy functional areas in the Seoul metropolitan area of Korea and 7 local employment policy functional areasin Gyeonggi administrative districts. Due to the great difference in the number of 'productive population' among employment policy functional areas, we argue that these 7 employment policy functional areas cannot be considered local policy areas. Therefore, we decompose 7 local labor market areas into 12 local employment policy functional areas. Based on these results, we recommend four policy tools to reform local employment market policy as follows. First, the territories of Regional Labor Administrative Agencies and branch offices should be rearranged in line with employment policy functional areas. Second, the programmes of the Ministry of Employment and Labour need to reflect different, regional, characteristics in employment policy functional areas. Third, employment policy-makers should consider the characteristics of the functional areas and then may consider the coordination or unification of local employment centers operated by local governments in order to improve employment service quality. Finally, our approach used in this study, is also applied in the work of administrative districts rearrangement.