| Summary: | 博士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 96 === In response to the growing middle-to-old aged unemployed population as a result of ageing population and fast transformation of industrial structure since the late 1990s in Taiwan, this study attempts to explore the re-employment needs of the middle-to-old aged unemployed population, to discover the factors which influence the re-employment needs of the middle-to-old aged unemployed population, and to examine whether government policy and programs have been responded to meet the needs of those middle-to-old aged unemployed population.
Then three research perspectives are applied in the interpretation of this study: life course perspective, disengagement theory of social gerontology, and social needs perspective. Three methods are used in the collection of research data: literature review, questionnaire survey, and depth interview. The questionnaire survey has, by using the cluster sampling method, sampled 403 middle-to-old aged unemployed population who have received unemployment insurance cash benefit more than 6 months. The depth interview method has interviewed 6 middle-to-old aged unemployed employees, and 4 labor administration officers.
The main findings of this study are:
1. The longer of the unemployment length of those middle-to-old unemployed population, the less of their re-employment needs. In other words, the need for re-employment of those middle-to-old aged unemployed population will be decreasing with increasing unemployment length.
2. The following factors have had significant correlation with need for re-employment of those middle-to-old aged unemployed population at time of unemployment: level of education, residential region, family income sources, salary prior to unemployment, and company scale prior to unemployment.
3. The following factors have had significant correlation with need for re-employment of those middle-to-old aged unemployment population after receiving 6 months unemployment cash benefit: length of unemployment, age, level of education, family structure, and family income sources.
4. The re-employment approaches of those middle-to-old aged unemployed population include job assistance, type of employment, and self-employment. In job assistance, this study discovers that middle-to-old aged unemployed population have expressed their less willingness to receive vocation training. In type of employment, more than half of the middle-to-old aged unemployed population prefer to take part time or full time job. In self-employment, most of the middle-to-old aged unemployed population have less interest to establish their own business.
5. The following factors are closely related with their different types of employment: level of education, residential region, gender factor, family income sources, and job prior to unemployment, and salary prior to unemployment.
On the basis of these findings, this study finally puts forth its policy proposals underpinned by the following four basic principles: diversification of needs, ageing disengagement, gradual withdrawal, and life-long learning. All proposals are respectively geared to government employment policy and programs, enterprises job recruitment of middle-to-old aged employee, and middle-to-old aged unemployed population.
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