부산지역 중소기업 고용창출에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore characteristics of SMEs in Busan area and to evaluate their performance in creating jobs. Based on those analysis, this paper suggests appropriate goals of employment policies and detailed strategies to boost regional employment. The results show that the Busan regional labor market would be characterized with relatively higher unemployment rate while the area suffer from excess demand of labor as a result of job mismatch. However, employment performance of the area could be improved through introduction of employment friendly policies. These results indicate the role of SMEs to create more jobs in Busan as followings. First, it is necessary to attract more enterprises and to promote new businesses so as to expand demand side of the labor market. Second, concentrated supports for technical colleges and high schools are also needed to meet the needs of businesses that seek to hire the unemployed. Third, it is unavoidable to strengthen job training especially for science engineering fields: mechanical and material engineering, computer sciences, civil engineering and construction. The job training would work better when it is provided to women whose employment performance has been steadily low. It is, finally emphasized the necessities of active government intervention to dissolve job mismatch in the area. Based on our analysis, job mismatch between job seekers and businesses causes 23,365 vacancies which means dissolving the mismatch possibly creates that number of jobs. Effective measure to clear the market would be hosting more and frequent job fairs by diminishing asymmetric information in the labor market.