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The Ideals and Realities of Labor Reform under the Moon Jae-in Government: From Inclusive Security Strategy to Smoothed Dualization Strategy

  • Korea Social Policy Review
  • Abbr : KSPR
  • 2020, 27(1), pp.129-152
  • DOI : 10.17000/kspr.27.1.202003.129
  • Publisher : Korean Association of Social Policy
  • Research Area : Social Science > Sociology > Medical / Welfare / Social policy
  • Received : January 14, 2020
  • Accepted : March 3, 2020
  • Published : March 31, 2020

Kwon, Soonmee 1

1고용노동연수원

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to evaluate the characteristics of the Moon Jae-in government's labor reform policies within the framework of a comparable analysis. The Moon Jae-in government's labor-related manifesto was an encompassing security strategy that guarantees the employment and welfare of outsiders as well as insiders of labor market. However, the actually implemented labor policies were a smoothed dualization strategy, in which outsiders’ social protection was limited. The gap between the ideals and realities of labor policy is due not only to the absence of a detailed roadmap for worsening economic conditions and weak political power, but also to structural constraints such as the conservative welfare regime, consolidated dual labor market and weak left-wing parties.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.