Possibility of the new Half-way Employment judging from Research of Japan and Korea

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590125
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kobe Shinwa Women's University
• Principal Investigator: TODA NORIKI 神戸親和女子大学, 発達教育学部, 教授 (70584465)
• Research Collaborator: HOO Hyonsuku 韓国保健福祉省, 福祉専門官
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 中間的就労 / 生活困窮者自立支援 / 日韓比較研究 / 生活保護自立支援プログラム / ケースマネジメント / 半福祉半就労 / 希望リボーンプロジェクト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This reserch is to examine the schemes of Self-reliance for poverty alleviation which were reformed in 2015 in both Japan and Korea. The former Japanese scheme is ““the Law to Support Independence of People in Need” and the latter Korean one is “Hope Re-born Project” of the Ministry of Health which was integrated with “The Employment Success Package” of the Employment Labor Relations Division in Korean Government.
These reforms in both countries share the same background of development in workfare policies based on the severe market fundamentalism along with globalization. These reforms demolish the outcome of past Half-way　 Employment, “half welfare and half working,” by emphasizing a form of full working in employment. This indicates a strong necessity to identify the nature in the past scheme of self-reliance for poverty alleviation in both countries and to clarify possible problems and solutions.

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