| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國家政策與公共事務研究所 === 105 === In order to ensure the economic survival of the unemployed labor during the period of unemployement, the Taiwanese government implemented the unemployment benefit system of the labor insurance in 1999, which was then changed into the unemployment benefit system of the employment insurance in 2003, with not only the fundamental function of “ensurring the economic sruvival during the period of unemployment” but also the active fucntion of “reemployment assistance for the unemployed”, in hopes of helping the unemployed labor to find another job as soon as possible. However, though the unemployment benefit policy has been implemented for over a decade, the effect of facilitating employment is still not as good as expected. The goal set for this policy hasn’t been achieved.
For this reason, this study aimed to explore the current status of the unemployment benefit policies of public employment service institutions and apply the policy implementability model to analyze the obstacles and problems encountered during the process of implementing the unemployment benefit policies and which factors would influence the achievement of the goal of “facilitating the reemployment of the unemployed”. In addition, by interviewing the policy implementers, this study tried to explore their views and opinions on the unemployment benefit policies based on their field experiences, in order to propose suggestions for the policy.
With the policy implementability model proposed by George C. Edwards III as the structure, this study performed further analyses and found the followings: In the aspect of “communication”, the policies were handed down to the enforcement units which had different ways to implement the policies. In the aspect of “resources”, there were issues including insufficient enforcement manpower and authority and information equipment which needed to be upgraded. In the aspect of “implementers’ intention”, the implementers had correct knowledge regarding the unemployment benefit policies and supported these policies. However, people did not have correct knowledge regarding the policies. As a result, the effect of facilitating employment was influenced. Moreover, there were problems caused by the implementation of the “Operation Directions for Unemployment Identification for the Employment Insurance” and the conflicts and contradictions of the implementers in practices due to the design of the current system, which were also the difficulties for the current policies. In the aspect of “institution structure”, the implementers mostly agreed with the SOP of “one case by one steward”. However, there were disadvantages such as inflexibility of service time and inconvenience for the people. In addition, because of the responsibility dispersion, it was difficult for business coordination, thus influencing the effect of policy implementation.
Lastly, based on the research findings, this study proposed some policy suggestions, including building a good channel or mechanism for communication, strengthening implementation resources, promoting correct concetps of unemployment benefit, revising the Operation Directions for Unemployment Identification for the Employment Insurance, reconsidering whether unemployment benefit and employement services should be combined or separated, imroving the service process of “one case by one steward”, and review the insurance benefit system.
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