장애인의무고용률 조정방안 = Adjustment Plan for the Mandatory Employment Rate of the Disabled

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Employment opportunities for the disabled remain low in comparison topeople without disabilities in the labor market. Nevertheless, thestate-mandated employment rate for the disabled has been maintained at2% since 1993. Taking recent employment conditions for the disabled intoaccount, it is necessary to promote an increase in the mandatoryemployment rate for three reasons. First is the rapid increase in peoplewho are registered disabled. The ratio of those disabled to the totalpopulation has increased from 2.0% in 2000 to 4.5% in 2008. Second, when‘double counting’ (allowed for employers that employ the severely disabled)is implemented, the disabled employment rate will already exceed thepresent 2%. Third, the employment rate must be re-evaluated every 5 yearson the grounds of a 2004 law revision. It is for these three reasons thatthe employment rate mandate must be addressed.The mandatory employment rate of the disabled can be estimated usingfour methods. First is by means of the equalization of the employmentrate. This equalizes the employment rate between disabled people andthose without disabilities in order to decide where to set the level of themandatory employment rate. Using this method, the estimated rate ofemployment emerges as 8.81%. Another approach is to instead analyze theequalization of the unemployment rate. Then, the estimated outcome is2.80%. Third, one can apply an equalization of the labor-force participationrate. The estimated outcome using this approach is 7.72%. It becomes 6.07%when the number of unemployed includes those job-seekers who havetemporarily postponed their search. The last approach follows a Japaneseestimation model. The calculated outcome resolves to 3.78% whenconsidering only the regular employee - 3.40% when considering theregular employee and the temporary employee. It becomes 3.64% whenconsidering the regular employee, the temporary employee and dayworkers.