The Impact of Self-Employment on the National Economy

자영업이 국가경제에 미치는 영향

  • Kim, Woohyoung (Graduate School of Technology Management, Kyunghee University)
  • 김우형 (경희대학교 테크노경영대학원)
  • Received : 2017.03.03
  • Accepted : 2017.03.13
  • Published : 2017.03.31

Abstract

In this paper, we suggest proper policy directions through an analysis onthe impact of changes in self-employment on the national economy. In other words, we intend to identify the current status of self-employment jobs and present policy directions for supporting self-employed workers. In order to grasp the dynamic relationship of variables, we used a VAR model to measure the impact of self-employment job fluctuations and macroeconomic variables on each other. The analysis results demonstrate that an exogenous shock to the ratio of self-employed workers does not show a significant impact on the nominal growth ratio. However, when the analysis was done separately on an exogenous shock to the ratio of self-employed workers with employees and without employees, an increase in the ratio of self-employed workers with employees showed a positive impact on nominal growth. On the other hand, an increase in the ratio of self-employed workers without employees showeda negative impact on nominal growth. In future studies, it will be necessary to do additional analysis on quarterly data to estimate the short-term impact of macroeconomic variables on changes in the ratio of self-employed workers.

우리는 본 논문에서 자영업의 변화가 국민경제에 미치는 영향 분석을 통해 올바른 정책 방향을 제시하고자 한다. 즉, 자영업의 현황 및 자영업자 지원의 정책 방향을 제시하고자 한다. 우리는 변수들의 동태적 관계를 파악하기에 위해 VAR 모형을 사용하여 자영업 추이와 경시경제 변수 간의 상호 영향을 파악하였다. 분석 결과 자영업자 비중의 외생적 충격은 실질성장률에 대해 유의한 영향이 없으나, 고용 있는 자영업자와 고용 없는 자영업자로 구분하여 분석할 경우 고용 있는 자영업자의 비중의 증가는 실질성장에 긍정적 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 향후 연구에서는 자영업자 비중 변화에 대한 거시경제 변수의 단기적 효과를 추정하기 위해 분기별 자료 등으로 추가 분석을 시도할 필요가 있다.

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