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KMID : 1001320210480040195
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Social Welfare Policy
2021 Volume.48 No. 4 p.195 ~ p.231
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Ideal Types of Unemployment Insurance for the Self-Employed - Analysis of 9 OECD Countries using Fuzzy Set Ideal Type Approach -
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Kim Gyu-Hye
Lee Seung-Yoon
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Abstract
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This study conducted comparative analysis of self-employed unemployment insurance systems in nine OECD countries, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, and Korea, focusing on major institutional conditions consisting of accessibility, eligibility, and generosity, through fuzzy-set ideal type analysis. Based on recent studies, this study reviewed the changes in the composition and nature of self-employed workers after de-industrialization, discussed institutional reforms of national social security systems toward the expansion of non-standard forms of work, and reviewed existing discussions on changes in the self-employed unemployment security system. The main institutional categories that can reflect the institutionalization of unemployment insurance for self-employed workers in each country were composed of accessibility, eligibility, and generosity. Fuzzy-set ideal type analysis was conducted and as a result, Denmark and Sweden were classified as “the type with a high level of unemployment security for self-employed at all levels,” Finland as “the type with high generosity but low eligibility,” and Germany and Austria as “the type with high generosity but low accessibility.” France, Spain, and Italy were “the type with high accessibility only”. Here, Korea is “the type with a low level of unemployment security for self-employed businesses at all levels.” The analysis results for Korea, where the proportion of the self-employed are high, indicate an expansion of the precarious self-employed w ith large blind spots of unemployment insurance for the self-employed. Overall, it is necessary to ease involuntary unemployment sanctions and guarantee partial unemployment, as well as strengthen eligibility and generosity at the same level as employees to cover non-standard forms of work, including self-employed workers. Based on the analysis of the institutional similarity and difference in unemployment insurance of self-employed w orkers in nine OECD countries, the policy implications for the Korean labour market and unemployment insurance of self-employed workers were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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self-employed workers, unemployment insurance, non-standard forms of work, fuzzy-set ideal type analysis
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