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Towards Better Social and Employment Security in Korea

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This report on Korea is the fourth country study published in a series of reports looking into how policies connect people with jobs, following reports on Australia, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. It has a special focus on low-income groups, jobseekers and workers, and policies geared towards closing the considerable gaps these groups are facing around income and employment support. In the past forty years, Korea has gone through a remarkable economic transformation and in the past two decades, the country has also put in place a comprehensive social protection system and a strong activation framework. Nevertheless, features of Korea’s labour market, which include very low job tenure, a high degree of duality and a high level of informality, make it difficult for some measures to reach workers and jobseekers. This report concludes that significant additional action will be needed to make income and employment supports more effective and inclusive.

 

 

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Assessment and recommendations

Korea has gone through remarkable economic development over the past 40 years. Korea’s export‑led, manufacturing‑driven growth strategy has yielded faster economic growth than virtually anywhere else in the world, rapidly diminishing the gap between Korea and the OECD average in GDP per capita terms. Parallel to its rapid economic transformation, Korea has witnessed a considerable social transformation towards becoming one of the world’s most highly educated societies alongside rapid population ageing as a result of low fertility and rising life expectancy.

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