Thai Nguyen University Socialist Republic of Vietnam Southern Luzon State University Republic of Philippines EVALUATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BY PHUNG THI CAM CHAU – ROSE August, 2013 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Thai Nguyen University (Vietnam), International training center (Thai Nguyen University, College of Agricultural and Forestry), Southern Luzon State University (Philippines) for having organized this doctorate training course in business administration training, which I have found a valuable opportunity for me to further upgrade my knowledge and capacity. I feel grateful for my lectures have provided their students with their great knowledge and guidance throughout the course. I am indebted to the administrators of Thai Nguyen College of Economics and Finance, and Vietnam Trade Union University for their facilitation for my attendance to this course. I owe my deep gratitude to Assoc Prof Dr Do Anh Tai, my supervisor and instructor, for his kind instructions and valuable remarks towards my completion of this thesis. I would also like to say thanks to my relatives, friends and colleagues. Without their donations of materials, data processing, and translation, this thesis would not have been made possible. I am indebted to many other people. They are writers of useful materials in books, internet, and newspapers. And finally, my big thanks to my family whose encouragement and supports have always been with me from the beginning to completion of this thesis. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i TABLE OF CONTENTS ii ABSTRACT v LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES viii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 6 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS 8 DEFINITION OF TERMS 8 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES 11 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 11 Unemployment insurance 11 Coverage of unemployment insurance 19 Conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance 21 Unemployment insurance fund 23 Unemployment insurance regimes 25 Procedures for unemployment insurance regimes 28 REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES 34 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 35 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY 37 LOCALE OF THE STUDY 37 iii RESEARCH DESIGN 41 POPULATION AND SAMPLING 41 RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION 42 VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT 43 DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE 43 DATA PROCESSING METHOD 44 STATISTICAL TREATMENT 44 CHAPTER IV: PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 46 PROFILE OF RESPONDENTS 46 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE 51 Coverage of unemployment insurance 51 Conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance 58 Unemployment insurance fund 62 Unemployment insurance regimes 66 Procedures for unemployment insurance regimes 70 CHAPTER V: SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION 78 SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS 78 Characteristics of the respondents 79 The respondents ’perception on the implementation of unemployment insurance 80 The differences between the perceptions of employees are grouped in terms of type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment 83 CONCLUSIONS 85 RECOMMENDATION 86 iv Recommendations on the coverage of unemployment insurance 86 Recommendations on conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance 88 Recommendations on unemployment insurance fund 88 Recommendations on unemployment insurance regimes 89 Recommendations on procedures for unemployment insurance regimes 89 BIBLIOGRAPHY 91 APPENDIX A 94 APPENDIX B 95 APPENDIX C 100 APPENDIX D 104 v ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study is evaluating the implementation of unemployment insurance (UI) in Thai Nguyen 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 enjoying 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 UI in Thai Nguyen province in the coming years. In terms of structure, the thesis has five chapters. The thesis begins by defining the research problem and questions, and providing a justification for the research study. Chapter one also reviews the research background, and presents definitions of terms, significance and scope of the study. Chapter two examines the UI theory, current UI policy in Vietnam and its implementation. This chapter also reviews previous research related to UI. Chapter three discusses aspects of the research methodology including research design, data collection and data analysis methods, and hypothesis testing to support the model. Objectives of this chapter are: (1) to justify the research methodology of this study, (2) to explain research methodology used in the study, and (3) to demonstrate how research design, and data collection and analysis can be utilized in this study to answer the research questions outlined in the chapter one. vi Chapter four presents descriptive findings of the profile of respondents, the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province. Objectives of this chapter are present gathered data, analyze and interpret about them. Finally, chapter five where findings and conclusions are summarized and recommendation are indicated for the current UI policy and its implementation in Thai Nguyen province. This study attempts to know the status of the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in 2012, especially points out shortcomings of UI and the difficulties and limited problems of implementation process of this policy. It also provides valuable recommendations refer to the UI policies promulgate agencies and the UI management agencies in Thai Nguyen province in particular and the country in general, have issued this policy more completely, have many solutions to implement it more effectively. vii LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Profile of respondents 46 Table 2: Respondents’ perceptions on implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of coverage of UI 54 Table 3: Implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of coverage of UI based on the evaluation of the respondents have been grouped 55 Table 4: Respondents’ perception on implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of conditions for the enjoyment of UI 60 Table 5: Implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of conditions for the enjoyment of UI based on the evaluation of the respondents have been grouped 61 Table 6: The respondents’ perception on implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of UI fund 64 Table 7: Implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of UI fund based on the evaluation of the respondents have been grouped 65 Table 8: The respondents’ perception on implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of UI regimes 68 Table 9: Implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of UI regimes based on the evaluation of the respondents have been grouped 69 Table 10: The respondents’ perception on implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of procedures for UI regimes 72 Table 11: Implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in terms of procedures for UI regimes based on the evaluation of the respondents have been grouped 73 Table 12: Implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province based on the evaluation of the respondents have been grouped 75 viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Conceptual Model Showing the implementation of Unemployment insurance in Thai Nguyen province 36 Figure 2 Map of Vietnam 39 Figure 3 Map of Thai Nguyen province 40 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Today, besides the development of all aspects, the world is faced with many challenges of economic, political and social. Along with large uncertainties such as war, violence, crime, social inequality, etc., unemployment is also becoming a hot concern, exceeding all matters of common worrying, especially when the economic financial crisis knock to each individual, each household in each country . Unemployment affects not only for each employee and their families. Unemployment of large numbers of individuals will also have very negative impacts on society: for individuals, for economy, for the nations. However, in market economies, unemployment is inevitable phenomenon. It means that if there is a market economy, there is still unemployment. The problem posed is to control the allowed unemployment rate. According to economists, maintaining a certain unemployment rate can stimulate economic growth. But the unemployment rate increase exceeding the permitted level will affect greatly to the socio-economic development of the country. Because of the impact of scientific and technological revolution and globalization, unemployment is worsening. Unemployment became one of the problematic issues in lots of countries, which influences strongly on the development and stability of economic - political - social status of each country. So governments have the responses policies to resolve these two issues depending on their conditions in each period. Among them, the UI policies are built or improved in many countries to protect workers avoiding the feeling of uncertainty about the economy and society. [...]... security, also derived from the responsibility of a person was born and raised in the land of Thai Nguyen, in the 4 above problem, 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 purposes of this study are evaluating the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in 2012 and propose... grouped in terms of type of unit that employees had worked before unemployment (who were entitled to UI in 2012) on the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province? 4 What would be the proposed recommendations to improve the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in the coming years? SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY This study attempts to know the status of the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province. .. the implementation of UI could serve as resources for other studies SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS The primary intent of this study is to evaluate the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province in 2012 There were 348 employees who were entitled to UI in Thai Nguyen province used as respondents in this study Measurement of the implementation of UI in Thai Nguyen province is limited to the use of questionnaires... Social Insurance - In the provinces and cities directly under the Central Social Insurance provinces and centrally-run cities (hereinafter referred to as provincial Social Insurance) under the Vietnam Social Insurance - In the districts, towns and provincial cities as social insurance districts, towns and provincial cities (collectively, the District Social Insurance) under the provincial Social Insurance. .. shall be administered by the state Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs on Social Insurance, Ministry of Health on health insurance, the Ministry of Finance of fiscal regime for social insurance, health insurance Functions, tasks of the system of Vietnam Social Insurance According to Decree No 94 dated 22/8/2008 of the Government, the Vietnam Social Insurance is an agency of government,... Defense, Ministry of Public Security, the Cipher Government management of the implementation of social insurance, health insurance in the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Public Security, The Government Information Department - Defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure and the relationship of the subordinate units; allocation decisions to the payroll for the units of payroll... 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 UI 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... 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... protect the rights patients with medical insurance card and abuse prevention; introduction laborers who did the inspection impaired workers at the Medical Assessment Board under the provisions of law - Directing and guiding the professional services for social insurance Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Public Security, Government Information Department, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Insurance. .. social insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance and income, social insurance payments, security unemployment insurance, Health insurance prescribed by law to issue individual documents and document internal management industry Vietnam Social Insurance - Organize information dissemination, communication and dissemination of the regime, policy and legislation on social security, UI, health insurance . unemployment 83 CONCLUSIONS 85 RECOMMENDATION 86 iv Recommendations on the coverage of unemployment insurance 86 Recommendations on conditions for the enjoyment of unemployment insurance 88 Recommendations. insurance 58 Unemployment insurance fund 62 Unemployment insurance regimes 66 Procedures for unemployment insurance regimes 70 CHAPTER V: SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION 78. Recommendations on unemployment insurance fund 88 Recommendations on unemployment insurance regimes 89 Recommendations on procedures for unemployment insurance regimes 89 BIBLIOGRAPHY 91 APPENDIX