• Using data for the 1st to 24th KLIPS academic conferences, we analyzed the differences in unemployment benefit receipt and re-employment status according to the employment stability of the job before unemployment.

- Among wage earners who lost their jobs in the 23rd wave(2020), cases where all jobs in the 2 years before unemployment were full-time were defined as workers with high employment stability, and cases where this was not the case were defined as workers with unstable employment.

• The unemployment benefit receipt rate for workers whose employment was unstable prior to unemployment (hereafter referred to as temporary and daily workers) is 15.8%, which is only about 65% of the rate for workers whose employment was stable (hereafter referred to as permanent workers).

- As a result of the examination of the reasons for non-application for unemployment benefits by non-recipients of unemployment benefits, the main reason for non-application for permanent workers was "voluntary change of job", and for temporary and daily workers "non-subscription to employment insurance".

- The employment experience of unemployment benefit recipients was 74.8% for temporary and daily workers, which was 10.6%p higher than for permanent workers, and the average time to re-employment was 7.7 months for temporary and daily workers and 8 months for permanent workers, which does not seem to be a significant difference according to the stability of employment.

- However, more than half of temporary and daily workers (52.0%) take more than 3 months to be re-employed after receiving unemployment benefits, 61.3% have unstable employment even after re-employment, and only 23.2% are full-time employees and do not have stable employment.

- Therefore, it is judged that policy support is needed to strengthen the role of employment insurance as a social safety net for the underemployed and to promote human capital accumulation, such as expanding vocational and educational training to support re-employment.