Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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Study on Entering Self-Employment of Young Workers

청년층의 자영업 진입에 관한 연구

  • Shin, Jaeyoul (School of Global Studies and Collaboration, Aoyamagakuin University) ;
  • Kim, Jongsung (Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship, Kookmin University)
  • 신재열 (아오야마학원대학 지구사회공생학부) ;
  • 김종성 (국민대학교 글로벌창업벤처대학원)
  • Received : 2019.09.08
  • Accepted : 2020.02.19
  • Published : 2020.02.29
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Abstract

In recent years, the proportion of youth's self-employed is steadily increasing, and government policy also actively encourages youth to become an entrepreneur. However, most of the domestic precedent studies on the self-employed labor market focus on the middle-aged and the elderly, and previous studies on the self-employed labor market of young people are hardly ever studied. Above all, the study that examines the factors of entry into self-employment of young people is not sufficient and researchers usually utilize the study about for all ages to explain the self-employment market of young people. However, because the young and middle-aged people differ in labor market conditions, family backgrounds, and the level of accumulation of human capital, separate explanations and theories are needed. Therefore, this study explored the factors of entry into self-employment by separating the age group from 15~29 years old. The data used in the analysis was the 9th to 20th data of the Korea Labor Panel Survey. The youth unemployment rate and employment rate were referred to the Economically Active Population Survey of Statistics Korea. The analysis subject was limited to young people who are currently performing economic activities, and the analysis method used multi-level logit model. The main results are summarized as follows. First, the lower the unemployment rate and the higher the employment rate, the younger people tend to enter their own businesses on the structural level. Second on the individual level, young people who possess enough financial capital or pursuit personal aptitude or interest tend to enter self-employment. However, there are no statistical effects of human capital and entrepreneur capital.

최근 몇 년간 청년자영업자의 비중이 꾸준히 증가하고 있고, 정책적으로도 청년들의 창업을 적극적으로 권장하고 있다. 하지만 자영업 노동시장을 검토하고 있는 대다수의 국내 선행연구에서는 상대적으로 중·장년층에 초점을 맞추고 있으며, 청년층의 자영업 노동시장에 관한 선행연구는 일부 연구에서 제한적으로 다루어져 왔다. 특히 청년들의 자영업 진입요인을 별도로 검토한 연구는 부족하며, 분석방법도 전 연령대를 대상으로 한 자영업 진입연구에서 활용한 이론을 적용하고 있다. 하지만, 청년층과 중·장년층은 노동시장 조건과 가족 배경, 인적자본의 축적수준 등이 다르므로 별도의 설명체계와 이론이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 15세~29세의 연령층을 별도로 구분하여 청년층의 자영업 진입요인을 탐색적으로 분석하였다. 분석에 사용한 자료는 한국노동패널조사 9~20차 데이터를 활용했으며, 청년 실업률과 고용률은 통계청의 경제활동인구조사를 참조하였다. 분석대상은 현재 경제활동을 수행하고 있는 청년으로 한정하였으며 분석방법은 다층로짓분석(multi-level logit model)을 활용했다. 주요 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 구조적 차원에서는 실업률이 낮고 고용률이 높을수록 청년층이 자영업에 진입하는 경향이 있다. 둘째, 개인적 차원에서는 가구의 금융자본이 많고 안정적인 직업보다는 고수익을 추구하거나 직업 적성 적합도를 추구하는 경향이 강할수록 자영업에 진입하는 것으로 나타났으며, 학력과 부모의 자영업 경험은 청년층의 자영업 선택에 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 분석되었다.

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