우리나라 고용서비스 구조의 ‘분절성’분석

The impact of the labor market following the 1997 IMF crisis and the continued increase in employment risk since then led to the establishment of various employment measures and a significant growth in employment services. But it was also a process of deepening the segmentation of employment services. Although there have been many governmental efforts and discussions about this, a systematic analysis of the structural causes, characteristics, and operating mechanisms of the fragmentation has not been presented. This study insists that the fragmentation of Korea's employment services is nothing but a fragmentation of the unemployment benefits program which is centered on the income security program for the unemployed/jobseekers. The fragmentation between the central government, between the central and local areas, and between the public and private sectors is caused by mis-operation of the systematic division of roles in the delivery system for each target due to the absence of a comprehensive employment safety net. Therefore, considering that the income security program for the unemployed/ jobseekers is determined according to the level of each country's welfare state system, the boundary line of Korea's employment service segment is a kind of structural 'limit line' that goes beyond the functional level.