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Preface
1. New Trends on the Labor Market, Challenges for Policies, and the Need for
Partnerships: OECD Perspectives
Sergio Arzeni
2. Public Employment Policy and Unemployment Insurance in the United States
Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O’Leary
3. Public Employment Policy and Unemployment Insurance in Canada
Ging Wong
4. Job Placement, Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy in
Germany
Uwe Blien, Ulrich Walwei, Heinz Werner
5. Labor Market Trends and the Employment Insurance System in Korea
Kil-Sang Yoo, Jaeho Keum, Jai-Joon Hur, Byung Hee Lee, Jiyuen Chang
6. Concluding Remarks: Recent Developments of Employment/Unemployment Insurance
and Active Labor Market Policies
Kil-Sang Yoo
Contributors
요약
For the last decade globalization and technological advancement have
dramatically altered economic and industrial structures causing an enormous
shift in the labor market situation. Indeed, labor market policies must now
cover a wider range of increasingly complicated issues, and nations across the
globe are conducting both active and passive labor market policies to handle
these diverse issues.
Employment Insurance (EI)/ Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems in each country
have also undergone change in order to conform to the new environment. Although
the form and function of each national EI/UI system differs, the system itself
has played a major role in every country to promote labor market policy for
sustainable economic growth and social integration. The Korean EI system has
also made a great contribution to labor market development since its
introduction in July 1995. In particular, it has contributed remarkably to
overcoming the high unemployment rate after the 1997 financial crisis. And as
EI/UI systems assume an even greater as the social safety net, those programs
must be supplemented and improved.
On September 12-13, 2001, the Korea Labor Institute (KLI), International Labor
Organization (ILO), and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) jointly held the
International Workshop on the Role of Employment/Unemployment Insurance under
New Economic Environment in Seoul, Korea. At this workshop, recognized scholars
and policy-makers from six OECD countries as well as distinguished
representatives from international organizations shared the experiences and
lessons of other countries. In addition, they reviewed the significant changes
in the EI/UI system and documented the effects on labor markets. Policy-makers
from Asian developing nations, who are currently working to introduce EI/UI
systems in their countries, also participated in policy discussions and learned
from the experiences of the developed countries.
The goal of the international workshop was to review recent significant changes
in the EI/UI system, to document their effects on labor markets and on the
quality of life of workers, and to share recent experiences. This book reflects
the content and process of the workshop, covering changing local labor market
issues and the development of the EI/UI systems of selected OECD countries,
such as unemployment insurance benefits and unemployment assistance, wage
subsidy programs, vocational training programs, among others.