자영업 혼잡률 개념을 이용한 한국 서비스 자영업 분석

초록

This study proposes the “self-employment congestion rate” as an alternative to the “self-employment rate” for studying the Korean self-employment sector. The self-employment rate does not adequately reflect conditions of weakness and overcrowding in the Korean self-employment sector, a shortcoming the self-employment congestion rate addresses. In this study, to demonstrate the value of the self-employment congestion rate in research on the Korean self-employment sector, the authors classified the Korean service sector based on patterns of innovation and performed a panel analysis using these classifications. The major findings of the study are as follows. First, weakness is increasing in Korean mid- and high-innovation service businesses, considered to have high innovative potential, thus negatively impacting economic results, as well as innovation, in these businesses. The Korean service sector is characterized by rising self-employment weakness in highly innovative businesses (not just in traditional service businesses), and this increase negatively impacts economic outcomes. Second, in low-innovation businesses, the negative effects of increasing self-employment congestion are focused on relatively successful self-employed. Third, though the self-employment congestion rate in high-innovation businesses is relatively low, the negative effect of increasing self-employment congestion on economic results in these businesses is higher than in other, lower-innovation businesses.

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