OECD 고용보호지수의 정확성과 적정성

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This paper estimates the accuracy and appropriation of the OECD employment protection indicators through Korean case. 'Employment protection' means the rules governing the firing of workers and the use of temporary contracts and 'employment protection indicators' means scores or a degree of strictness of 'employment protection legislations'(hereafter 'EPL') in each member country of OECD. The OECD employment protection indicators are compiled from 21 items quantifying the costs and procedures involved in dismissing individuals or groups of workers or hiring workers on fixed-term or temporary work agency contracts. The overall summary indicator is made up of three sub-indicators quantifying different aspects of employment protection: individual dismissal of workers with regular contracts, additional costs for collective dismissals, and regulation of temporary contracts. The paper is composed of three parts as follows. The first part estimates the accuracy of the OECD employment protection indicators by examining the three cases in 1999, 2003, 2008 of Korean EPL. In the second part, this paper estimates the accuracy of the OECD employment protection indicators by comparing strictness of dismissal notification procedures among France, Germany, and Korea. Lastly The third part of this paper goes on to address some of the criticisms on the EPL indexs or OECD indicators, which consider employment protection as a cost so that underestimate the value of the importance of employment protection.

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