abstract of dissertotation doctor of basiness administrationevaluating the implementation of umemployment insurance in thai nguyen province

Thai Nguyen University Socialist Republic of Vietnam Southern Luzon State University Republic of Philippines EVALUATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BY PHUNG THI CAM CHAU – ROSE August, 2013 The thesis was completed at: Thai Nguyen University Supervisor: Assoc Prof Dr Do Anh Tai Reviewer 1: Reviewer 2: The dissertation will be defended in the thesis evaluation council at: Southern Luzon State University , Philippines At …………………… The thesis can be found in the materials center of Thai Nguyen University And the library of Southern Luzon State University, Philippines 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Unemployment insurance is the process of formation and use of funds through the financial contributions of the employee, the employer and the help of the state, in order to support of income for workers in period they have lost their jobs, enabling them to find new jobs in the labor market. This has important implications for individual workers and companies, contributing to balancing role in the economy, helping to decrease social stress caused by unemployment. That is one of the tools to implement social security policies of each country. In Vietnam, unemployment insurance, as a mode of social insurance and a component of social security, has been built and was officially implemented in 2009. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 4-year experience, the implementation of unemployment insurance has made significant achievements, but also has some limitations that should soon be adjustments to this policy performs its role in a better way. As a law lecturer with passion for researching and teaching law of labor and social security, also derived from the responsibility of a person was born and raised in the land of Thai Nguyen, the authors decided to select the topic "Evaluating the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province" for her research. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The main purpose of this study are evaluating the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen 2 province in 2012 and propose some recommendations to improve the implementation of the policy in the coming years. In solving the research problem mentioned previously, this study has the following objectives: 1. To describe the characteristics of the respondents. 2. To determine the perception of the respondents on the implementation of UI in terms of: Coverage of UI; Conditions for the enjoyment of UI; UI fund; UI regimes; Procedures for UI regimes. 3. To compare the perceived implementation of the UI when the respondents are grouped in terms of: Type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment. 4. To propose some recommendations to improve the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province in the coming years. Specifically, it sought answers to the following questions: 1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of: Age; Sex; Type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment; Type of labor contract/ work contract had been signed before unemployment; Current job status; Time has participated in UI; UI enjoy status. 2. What is the perception of respondents on the unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province in terms of: Coverage of UI; Conditions for the enjoyment of UI; UI fund; UI regimes; Procedures for UI regimes. 3. Is there significant difference between the perception of the employees are grouped in terms of type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment (who were entitled to unemployment insurance in 3 2012) on the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province? 4. What would be the proposed recommendations to improve the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province in the coming years? SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY This study would be beneficial to employees, trade unions in enterprises, enterprises, the unemployment insurance policies promulgate agencies and the unemployment insurance management agencies, researcher and future researchers. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS The primary intent of this study is to evaluate the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province in 2012. There were 348 employees who were entitled to unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province used as respondents in this study. Measurement of the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province is limited to the use of questionnaires with a limited number of involved people. Checklist is developed for the purpose of the study. The time frame of this study covered the period from January 2012 to April 2013. DEFINITION OF TERMS The terms are defined to include: A definite term labor contract, a labor contract, a working contract, an employee, an employer, an indefinite term labor contract, service unit of the 4 State, large enterprise, Small and medium enterprise, social insurance, the labor force, the social insurance organization, the unemployed, the unemployment rate, trade Union, unemployment insurance. CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents the discussion of topics that served as background information in conducting this study. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE After presenting an overview of unemployment insurance: concepts, characteristics, roles and implementation unemployment insurance career agencies, the authors focus on presenting material related law provisions of the basic unemployment insurance contents and the enforcement of such regulations. There are five basic contents: coverage of unemployment insurance; conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance; unemployment insurance fund; unemployment insurance regimes; procedures for unemployment insurance regimes. REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES Unemployment insurance was first defined in the Social Insurance Law of 2006, takes effect in 2009. Due to the new policy should also present, there is not much research on this issue. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The conceptual model includes three parts: Input, process and output. 5 INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT - The profile of the respondents in terms of: Age; Sex; Type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment; Type of labor contract/ work contract had been signed before unemployment; Current job status; Time has participated in UI; UI enjoy status. - The respondents’ perception on implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of: coverage of UI; conditions for the enjoyment of UI; UI fund; UI regimes; procedures for UI regimes. - Data gathering - Evaluation through questionnaire checklist - Analysis and interpretation of data The proposed recommendation s to improve the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in the coming years FEEDBACK 6 CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY This chapter deals with the locale of the study, research design, population and sampling, instrumentation, data gathering procedures, and statistical treatment used in the study. LOCALE OF THE STUDY This study focuses on assessing the implementation of unemployment insurance through respondents in Thai Nguyen province. RESEARCH DESIGN In this study, the researcher basically uses the descriptive method which is appropriate for evaluating the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province. POPULATION AND SAMPLING In 2012, in Thai Nguyen province, there were 2,665 employees entitled unemployment insurance. To determine the ideal sample size for a population, Slovin's formula is used. So, 348 employees are entitled to unemployment insurance in 2012 (out of 2,665 employees) were selected to answer the questionnaire. This research used probability-sampling method. Simple random sampling was chosen in this study. RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION The researcher creates a questionnaire which was the main tool in gathering data. A questionnaire is divided into two parts. The first part determined the profile of the respondents; the second part determined the perception of the respondents on implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province. There were 30 questions (with weighted scale: (5) very good, (4) good, (3) fair, (2) 7 weak, (1) bad) which divided into 5 groups of issues: Coverage of unemployment insurance, conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance; unemployment insurance fund, unemployment insurance regimes and procedures for unemployment insurance regimes VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT A validation of the questionnaire is done using the inter- consistency judgment criteria. The researcher sought the assistance of some experts to validate the content of the questionnaire in terms of correctness of language, appropriateness of the statements and relevance of the items to the problem using the codes: 3 for “acceptable”, 2 for “needs revisions”, and 1 for “not acceptable.” DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE The actual data gathering procedures was done through several processes: Making a research proposal and a research planning, collecting materials theory, finding reports about the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province, determining sample, building questionnaire, survey. DATA PROCESSING METHOD This study used the ratios: coverage of unemployment insurance, conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance, unemployment insurance fund, unemployment insurance regimes, procedures for unemployment insurance regimes as dependent variables, and, the implementation of UI as the independent variables. These ratios are derived from unemployment insurance statements. SPSS and Excel software will help this data transformation easily and quickly. 8 STATISTICAL TREATMENT To answer the problems posed in this study, the following statistical tools were applied on the data collected: To determine the profile of the respondents, mean, frequency and percent distribution and standard deviation analysis were used as a descriptive statistics. In order to evaluate the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province, weighted mean was utilized. For further interpretation, the 5 – point scale ((5) very good, (4) good, (3) fair, (2) weak, (1) bad) was used. To find out if there is a significant difference on the perceptions of the respondents regarding the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used. CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA This chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of data gathered that would answer the problems stated in the previous chapter. The data and statistical findings are presented and given implications to concretize the concepts. PROFILE OF RESPONDENTS In 2012, in Thai Nguyen province, 2665 people have signed up and were decided to unemployment insurance regimes. 348 employees of them have been selected as respondents of the questionnaire. This section presents statistics and analyses of profile of the respondents according to the criteria: age, sex, types of units that worked before unemployment, type of labor contract/ work [...]... evaluation of the three groups of respondents in the subject matters of unemployment insurance Synthesis of the results, we see that, in the assesment of the respondents, the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province is not really good We also can see the difference in the perception and evaluation of the three groups of respondents in the subject matter of the unemployment insurance. .. things that businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, should learn the service units of the State CHAPTER V SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION The findings, conclusions and recommendations to improve the effectiveness of unemployment insurance policy in Thai Nguyen province are being presented in this chapter SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Characteristics of the respondents There were... signed before the unemployment, salary (according to the labor contract/ work contract) before the unemployment, current job status, duration has participated in unemployment insurance, times entitled to unemployment insurance THE IMPLEMENTATTON OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE This section analyzes, explains, comments on the outstanding issues, finds out the difference in the perception... respondents on the implementation of unemployment insurance In terms of the coverage of UI, awareness of the object of the UI is different workers in the period before the insured after unemployment and participation, enjoyment mode of UI Knowledge workers may be partly because the research efforts them, but depend significantly to the dissemination of the agencies, organizations and individuals are... insurance regimes For the policy Continue to maintain the current unemployment insurance regimes If fund for permitted, State should continue to research increasing support levels for unemployment allowance For the implementation of policy Implementation more effectively of systems to support vocational training, job search assistance, to the unemployment insurance policy is not just the "Famine" the. .. result from the fact that they are well aware of the UI program, their units meet the demand for information about UI for them In contrast, perceptions of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises in terms of condition for enjoy UI before the insuring UI is at bad level This has the consequence of their poor awareness about the program in general, their units, labor agency, social 15 insurance. .. vulnerable in the implementation of UI right This also shows that there has been an abuse of premiums of workers in the enterprises Whereas, with the service units of the State, so they do not have business functions, to be issued (partial or full) operating funds from the state, so they have obligations to contribute UI fund in a better way In terms of UI regimes, there are differences in the assessment of. .. improve the implementation of UI in the coming years, the author would like to offer some recommendations below: Recommendations on the coverage of unemployment insurance For the policy - The State should continue to study to expand the UI participants to the business, the employer, do not limit the number of employees - Unemployment insurance should be mandatory regulations apply to all employees working... considering and resolving duration of the agencies; the implementation of regulation about unemployment registered duration; the implementation of regulation about inform labor agency of the job search while the enjoyment of unemployment allowance The differences between the perceptions of employees are grouped in terms of type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment In terms of the coverage... more in any business units, regardless of the duration of the contracts and the size of the enterprises/businesses (like it is done with the current compulsory social security) - Expand the type of participation For the implementation of policy To expand unemployment insurance participants, the dissemination of information on this policy is extremely important Recommendations on conditions for the enjoyment . improve the implementation of unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province in the coming years. 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