In the aging society, its influence surely comes to have a profound impact not only on the welfare policies but also on the economic development. This leads us to have to urgently study and work out the solutions against the problems of our rapid agin...
In the aging society, its influence surely comes to have a profound impact not only on the welfare policies but also on the economic development. This leads us to have to urgently study and work out the solutions against the problems of our rapid aging Korea.
In this context, this study is intended to study the employment promotion policy for the old, among other things, as one important aspect of the welfare policies for them.
In Korea, the problems of population aging are much more serious than in other countries, because it is most rapid in the world and also accelerating along with such a decline of child birth rate.
These perspectives need to force us to positively make use of the senior labor forces for the sustainable welfare state policy as well as continued economic growth.
The findings of this study are as follows;
First, It is necessary to reform the conventional welfare systems into a new paradigm of national solidarity scheme to cope with those rapid aging problems.
Second, the present separate laws and regulations needs to be reformed into a single law for the employment promotion with close relation to the job education/training and job placement programs.
Third, the job specifications for the old people-first employment needs to be extended to the professional occupations along with those education/training by the training institute for their reemployment.
Fourth, the way of thinking of the aged needs to be changed and their volunteer activities activated positively by various kinds of policy programs and campaigns.