An Analysis of Labor Pension Act: From Cultural Views of Actors and Their Life-worlds
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chang, Yu-Cheng
Abstract
Old age security becomes an important issue in our aging society. Among all kinds of polices made for dealing with old age security, the Labor Pension Act stands out distinctive from others for its individual account rather than social Insurance which characterizes Labor Insurance Act as well as National Pension Act. The formation process and social effect of the Labor Pension Act are analyzed in this study in a cultural perspective. Actors, based on their context and web of meaning, interpret, then to make sense of effects brought about by the Labor Pension reform. Different data, such as secondary data, interviews, and social surveys, are used to show the difference of interpretations between policy makers and actors who live in their life-worlds. As Chapter 3 shows, in the formation process of the Labor Pension Act, the frame of discourse changes, and the actors involved in the policy debate also change, not to mention the way of claiming legitimacy. The policy makers, or the government, has one way of interpretation toward the Labor Pension Act, pension system, and labor. The actors who live in their own life-worlds have the other ways to interpret the Labor Pension Actor and their own life. Chapter 4 shows that actors living in their life-worlds regard retirement as an individual issue, but with different reasons. Lifeworld actors are embedded in webs of meaning, actors, and identities. Webs change with actors’ life course. Lifeworld actors have to deal with current issues in each stage of lifecourse, and give/gain support from others in webs. So, retirement support, for Lifeworld actors, comes from actors’ webs, not individual account of the Labor Pension. Furthermore, in chapter 5, we can see the government’s claiming and interpretation creates a blind spot so that the deficiencies of the Labor Pension Act become invisible. Will those people with low income and unstable career path, namely the real in need, have enough support when they retire from work? It’s surely the aim claimed by the Labor Pension Act, but this claim has still be left without further problematization and reflection.
Subjects
Labor Pension Act
institutional change
social effect of institution
aging society
economic security
Type
thesis
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