2021, Vol.30, No.1

Journal of Regulation Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.78

pISSN : 1738-7132
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ksrs2002

In this study, I analyzed the effect of the rapid increase in the minimum wage in 2018 on employment using the recent Korean Welfare Panel Study. As a result, it was found that the sharp increase in the minimum wage in 2018 reduced the employment rate of those subject to the minimum wage by about 4.1 to 4.6 percentage points. It is also analyzed that about 27.4~30.5% of the unemployed ratio in the group subject to the minimum wage is due to the rapid increase in the minimum wage in 2018. As it has been shown that a sharp increase in the minimum wage has a negative effect on employment, it is necessary to refrain from rapid increase in the minimum wage in the future. If a minimum wage increase is inevitable, it is necessary to avoid a big increase and find ways to reduce the negative impact on the employment, for example, by gradually increasing the minimum wage, or applying differentiated level by industry to the minimum wage, and so on.

Korea government relaxed the regulation of Electronic Finance Supervision(hereafter, EFS) in January, 2019 before global IT companies have established a Data Center for private financial information. The deregulation made the Microsoft and the Google build in 2019 and provide the Cloud Service in 2020, and also many global IT companies, like Apple, Oracle, Facebook, declared that the Data Center would construct in Korea. We estimate the environmental cost from a Data Center under an assumption that the electric power facility capacity of a Data Center is 40, then it cost about 6.4 billion Korean Won, and converted it to the present value, 87 billion Korean Won, by using both the life cycle period(20 year) of a Data Center and the social discount rate(4.5%). It implies that Data Center has a negative influence on the environment. Nevertheless, the EFS deregulation does not provide any kinds of restrictions or conditions on the environment now. In fact, overseas global IT companies are well aware of the environmental problems induced by their Data Centers and steadily make efforts to use the renewable energy more, but they don’t still take the same action in Korea. In this context, we derive a following policy implication: any kinds of supplementary and environmental condition for overseas global IT companies to deploy and build the Data Center in Korea should be added, i.e., the production of the electricity with a renewable energy by themselves, etc.

Since the existing regulatory improvement mainly aims to amend laws or to reorganize governance, it often fails to reflect the perceptions of the stakeholder’s, involved in the regulatory improvement process. Therefore, this study is meaningful in that it provided policy implications by identifying the stakeholder’s participating in the regulatory sandbox in order to overcome the limitations of existing studies. First, in the project-type regulatory sandbox, the issues related to evaluation and certification will be the most important factor for law revisions. Second, it is necessary to clearly set the differences between the place-based empirical issues in the project-type and regional-limited regulatory sandbox. Third, in the case of new technology, it is difficult to purchase insurance due to the limitations of insurance. So it need to use deduction system for implementation. Fourth, in the safety verification-related examination procedure, the examination procedure should be simplified. This study suggests that there is a need for a support system that identifies the perception differences of stakeholder’s participating in the regulatory sandbox.