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[National Future Strategic Insight] Major Issues and Suggestions of Job Change Support Service for Aging Society (No. 26)

Date : 2021-09-02 Writer : Sung Moon-ju

Associate Research Fellow Sung Moon-ju has proposed the policy direction based on issues derived from a support service framework for employment and lifelong learning, out of the mid- to long-term government plans for responding to the aging society, and outcomes obtained from metal-evaluation for such plans.

Key policy issues in this report include: (1) levels of new jobs (quality, diversity and sustainability); (2) lack of interconnection between policies and policy governance; (3) effectiveness of the job change support service; (4) accessibility gap between the metropolitan area and the provinces for the job change support service. Based on those issues, she proposed four policy directions. First, “policies designed to increase decent jobs”: when establishing mid- to long-term strategies, labor market projection should be included, and policies should be designed on the basis of analyzed causes of problems in the job change support service and problem-generating mechanism. Second, “systemically-improved frameworks built up by interconnection between policies”: governance should be reorganized to enable comprehensive control and fine adjustment for improving quality of life and for developing new career and new talent of middle-aged population. Third, “appropriate policy goals and indices”: the government’s mid- and long-term plans for the job change support service should be linked with national vision, major policy goals of response to the aging society, deriving proper performance indicators. Last, “enhancing employment and job change support programs”: metrics should be found, such as a link between employment services and career development program, local service accessibility, and effectiveness of the job change support service.

“Our country officially became an aged society in 2017, and is expected to be a super-aged society by 2025,” explains Seong. “Although the government is establishing mid- to long-term plans to respond to the aging society, but monitoring and feedback are needed to identify progressing and drawbacks of those policies.”


* “National Future Strategic Insight” is a brief report which is issued every two weeks to provide strategic insights for our future based on in-depth analysis of major issues made by professional researchers at the National Assembly Futures Institute (NAFI).