Closing the job… Due to layoffs… The first 2 million unemployed involuntarily
2196,000 people last December
48.9% year-on-year increase
Reporter Song Hyun-soo [email protected]
Input: 2021-01-17 09:52:42Revision: 2021-01-17 19:21:04Published: 2021-01-17 16:15:39
On the 13th, citizens are lining up at the Seoul West Employment Welfare Plus Center in Mapo-gu, Seoul to listen to an unemployment benefit presentation. yunhap news
Last year, it was found that the number of people who lost their jobs due to involuntary reasons such as closure of their jobs, layoffs, and sluggish business exceeded 2 million for the first time ever.
The employment cold caused by the Corona 19 incident was a devastating impact, and it was estimated that there were a lot of involuntary unemployed in vulnerable groups, including temporary and daily workers and small businesses.
According to the analysis of microdata of the Economically Active Population Survey at the National Statistical Office on the 17th, as of December last year, the number of involuntary unemployed workers less than a year after quitting was 2.196,000.
This is an increase of 48.9% from the same standard of 147,000 in 2019, and is the highest ever since 2000 when the unemployment statistics standard was changed.
On the same basis, in 2000 (1.86 million people), when the aftermath of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) foreign exchange crisis remained, and in 2009 (1789,000 people), when the global financial crisis was affected, the number of involuntary unemployed people increased, but it exceeded 2 million. This is the first time last year.
An involuntary unemployed person is a person who quits a job due to labor market reasons, such as’closing/closing of work’,’honorary retirement/early retirement/clearance dismissal’,’temporary/seasonal completion of work’,’because of lack of work or poor business’ Means. Those who quit work voluntarily for reasons such as housework, childcare, mental and physical disabilities, retirement at retirement age, and dissatisfaction with wages are not included.
Among the reasons for unemployment of 2.196,000 involuntarily unemployed last year, “completion of temporary and seasonal work” was the most common with 1.15,000, followed by “because of lack of work or poor business” with 485,000. ‘Honorary retirement, early retirement, layoff’ was 347,000 people, and’workplace closure/closing’ was 259,000.
Compared to the previous year in 2019, the number of’workplace closures and closures’ increased by 149.0%, and’honorary retirement, early retirement, and layoffs’ increased by 129.8%, respectively. Has more than doubled.
‘No work or business sluggish’ and’Temporary and seasonal work completion’ increased by 42.6% and 25.6%, respectively.
Among the involuntary unemployed, 598,000 people were classified as unemployed because they continued to search for work after unemployment, and 1.598,000 were classified as inactive because they were neither employed nor unemployed, such as giving up their job search or simply taking a break. .
Among the involuntary unemployed last year, the proportion of the vulnerable was particularly large.
In terms of employment status before unemployment, temporary workers were the most with 40.3% (885,000), followed by daily workers with 23.2% (51 million). The number of regular workers was 18.2% (400,000).
Among the self-employed, 9.6% (210,000 people) were self-employed without employees, more than 1.9% (41,000 people) self-employed with employees.
This means that temporary and daily jobs were more frequent than regular jobs, and’alone boss’ had more involuntary unemployment than’boss with employees’.
In terms of the number of workers in the workplace where they quit, 44.5% (977,000 people) of 1-4 people and 20.8% (457,000 people) of 5-9 people. 65.3% of all involuntary unemployed quit working after attending small businesses with fewer than 10 people.
10 to 29 (17.4%, 383,000), 30 to 99 (9.9%, 217,000), 100 to 299 (3.2%, 70,000), 300 or more (4.2%, 90,000) 3000), etc.), the involuntary unemployment tended to decrease as the size of the workplace increased.
By gender, women (55.2%, 1212,000 people) were more than men (44.8%, 984,000 people).
Nearly half of the involuntary unemployed, 49.4% (1085,000 people) were the head of a household (household owner).
By industry, the number of involuntary unemployed workers who were in the lodging and restaurant business hit by Corona 19 was the most, with 12.5% (274,000 people). Subsequently, agriculture, forestry and fishery (11.7%, 250,000 people), construction (10.5%, 230,000 people), health and social welfare service (9.6%, 211,000 people), manufacturing (9.5%, 210,000 people) , Public administration, national defense, and social security administration (9.1%, 200,000 people).
By age, those aged 60 and older accounted for the highest number with 36.8% (808,000 people), and in their 50s (19.4%, 425,000 people), in their 20s (18.2%, 399,000 people), and in their 40s (13.2%, 290,000 people). People), 30s (10.9%, 240,000 people), 15-19 years old (1.6%, 35,000 people) followed.
Reporter Song Hyun-soo [email protected]