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The Expanding the scope of Labor through the Introduction of Participation Income

  • DONG-A LAW REVIEW
  • 2020, (89), pp.287-316
  • DOI : 10.31839/DALR.2020.11.89.287
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law
  • Received : October 16, 2020
  • Accepted : November 30, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Han, Kwon-Tak 1

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ABSTRACT

The emergence of new types of labor, such as workers in special employment types and platform labor, and the increase in the elderly population, the problems of elderly poverty, triggered by Korea's unique demographic structure, and youth unemployment are causing cracks in the income guarantee system based on existing labor. And recent innovations in the industrial sector, represented by artificial intelligence and robots, are expected to significantly reduce human labor beyond creating a new word for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Considering the fact that the contents of labor can be changed according to social and economic circumstances and discussions on basic income are more active than ever in the wake of the recent Korona crisis, it is necessary to introduce participation income as a transitional form of basic income to overcome the crisis caused by the recent cracks in labor and to expand the scope of labor to prepare a new income guarantee system. Based on this awareness of the problem, this paper defined volunteer activities, taking vocational training or related education, care for the disabled, and agricultural activities as ‘participation labor’ and considered including them in the concept of labor and paying participation income. This would result in labor being made up of conventional subordinated labor and participation labor, allowing more people to earn income by participating in the work and live a stable life based on it.

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