자활사업 참여자의 자활의욕에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구

Abstract

The National Basic Living Security Act(1999) prescribes that "The goal is to guarantee the minimum level of living for the poor and promote their self-support by providing them with necessary benefits" in order to specifically guarantee the right to live in the Constitution(growing out of allowances), however, was 9.5% in 2001, 6.3% in 2007, 6.7% in 2008, and 7.7% in 2009. Under these existing circumstances, some severe criticisms about the institution have been brought by pointing out that "It fails to increase the participants' will for self-support and merely increases their dependence on public assistance." In response to such criticisms, government proposed some ways to enhance the result of self-support aid programs, and one of them was a performance management-style self-support center. Its purports under the title of Hope Project are increasing the program results by providing financial incentives to the private service providers(self-support aid centers) in accordance with the program results(rate of self-support). In the first year of program executed(2010), the rate of self-support improved to 9.0%(10.0% in 2011). However, there are couple of problems performance management-style self-support aid centers to solve behind those visible results: it is required to maintain the risk burden of the government and private sector at a proper level, keep valid competition among service providers, and prevent the possibility of unlawful acts. Because of that it would be hard to define economic self-support as the results of self-support program in the benefit system of nowadays devoid of a specific employment support program related to the needs and abilities of self-support program participants, this study focused on affective self-support as a stage to reach economic self-support and attempted to analyze influencing factors for it. As a result, the program participants' volition of self-support is depended on their social and psychological characteristics and the environments of the self-support program groups to which they belonged rather than their situational characteristics. Volition of self-support should be influenced by the right work and right workplace. Considering those aspects, it will be appropriate to approach the welfare-to-work goal of self-support program through a job creation model and labor force connection model rather than a human capital development model.