전북지역의 고용환경변화에 대응한 고용정책 개선방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

Purpose] This study aims to analyze, estimate, and diagnose changes in the employment environment in the Jeonbuk region due to population shock and digital shock in 2020, 2025, and 2030, and to suggest the direction of future-oriented employment policy to respond to rapid changes in the employment environment. [Methodology] Analyze, estimate, and diagnose changes in the employment environment in Korea and the Jeonbuk region for 2020, 2025, and 2030 to derive employment policies for the Jeonbuk region that can respond to changes in the employment environment. [Findings] The employment environment in the Jeonbuk region in the 2030s is expected to increase the demand for aging, highly skilled, female labor, so changes in future-oriented employment policies or job policies are required to respond to this. The direction of employment policy to alleviate population shock or digital shock in the Jeonbuk region and sustainably maintain productivity and employment stability is summarized as follows. First, a shift from quantitative employment policy to qualitative employment policy is necessary. In order to prevent outflow of the youth population and promote settlement in the region, a qualitative employment policy that can meet the good job standards pursued by the MZ generation should be promoted. In addition, the innovative growth engine of the regional economy should be secured by promoting youth-centered advanced technology startups based on science and technology. Second, a policy to foster youth-friendly complex innovation districts and knowledge-based service industries is needed. Third, an employment policy is needed to expand the economic participation of women and the middle-aged population. Fourth, a policy to foster human resource of new industries and new technologies necessary for the digital transformation is needed. Fifth, an employment policy is needed to ensure justice transition of labor due to the climate crisis and digital transformation. Finally, a systematization of labor policies that can absorb population shocks and digital shocks and achieve employment stabilization is required. [Implications] This study suggests that the fundamental policy direction to alleviate population shocks in the Jeonbuk region is the flexible operation of industrial policies or employment policies that maintain the same level of productivity as when the population was large, and that the future-oriented employment policy of the Jeonbuk region should reduce the training of industrial manpower in the agriculture, fisheries, and forestry sectors and expand the training of industrial manpower in the electricity, transportation, communications, and finance sectors.