복수의 기준을 사용한 한국 자영업 영세성 분석

초록

Korean self-employment research has lacked consistent criteria for understanding weakness within the self-employment sector. This study proposes four criteria of self-employment weakness based on entrepreneurial motivation, organizational size, financial performance, and business type. Analysis of the Korean weak self-employment sector using these four criteria on the KLIPS survey data between 1998 and 2018 reaches the following conclusions. First, the self-employment rate dropped, even as self-employment weakness increased. Second, self-employment weakness increased due to a deterioration in self-employment income through the mid-2000s but has since remained stable. Third, in the overall economy, the KLIPS data shows limited income polarization between the self-employment sector and the rest of the labor market. However, income polarization is not confirmed when the focus is narrowed only to the service sector. Finally, this study finds that opportunities for the self-employed were more plentiful in low-innovation businesses than in mid- to high-innovation businesses.

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