청년층 실업 문제와 교회의 역할

Abstract

The study aims to suggest a desirable role of the church as an intermediator between the youth labour supply and its demand in the market. The youth unemployment problem becomes more and more serious. The cooperative activities in the private sector are important to make an efficiency of the public unemployment measures. But it's not simple to attract the voluntary participation of the firms. Accordingly, it's worth to reinforce the voluntary network between the individual employer and the labourer by means of the tertiary intermediator in the private sector. As the general church contains an immense pool of the labour supplier and demander, it has a good condition to offer the qualified labourers and jobs. The church should teach the members to fulfill their rights and obligations and, at the same time, should make an effort to provide them a foundation for their job activities. In order to participate in the labour market, it needs at first the changing mind by which a christian businessman and a christian labourer are willing to take place in the job offering and the job sharing programs. By networking and reinforcing the church-firm cooperation, the church unions could organize so called 'Youth Employment Supporting Center' and extend effectively the opportunities that the youth would have more labour experiences and career. Finally, the church could develop this center as a new mission model for the youth.