7th Agora Economica: Employment for Older Workers and Youth Jobs

7th Agora Economica

Date and Time: 4:00 p.m., November 28, 2025

Venue: Pureun Hall

Topic: Employment for Middle-Aged and Older Workers and Youth Jobs

Presenter: Deokryong Yoon, President of the Gyeonggi Job Foundation

Discussants: Hongtaek Jeon, Emeritus Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management

Seongsik Shin, Research Fellow at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Taejong Kim, Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management

Hyesun Yoon, CEO of Yesable Pictures

Myungho Park, Emeritus Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

This seminar examined the expansion of employment for middle-aged and older workers and the creation of youth jobs not as a matter of “intergenerational competition,” but as a task of structural reform that enables both groups to thrive together, while exploring ways to make wage, employment, and education systems more flexible. In conclusion, it suggested that the policy direction should be to ease the rigid wage system and labor disparities in the AI era, while strengthening both labor market flexibility and the social safety net, thereby creating a virtuous cycle in which middle-aged and older workers can move into stable, high-value-added jobs that make use of their skills, and young people can enter quality jobs in emerging industries.

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Original title: 제7회: 중고령자 고용과 청년 일자리

Author: Agora Economica

Date: 2025-11-28

Source: https://www.cfe.org/bbs/bbsDetail.php?cid=agora&pn=1&idx=28291