• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
• /
• v.62 no.1
• /
• pp.5-30
• /
• 2010

This paper offers an alternative approach to measure the welfare state change by using fuzzy-set methodology. The fuzzy-set method is particularly useful for assessing change across a limited number of cases, and that it can help to translate interval fuzzy membership scores into verbal qualifiers. Applying the measurement of welfare state change, four sets(accessibility, generosity, activation, state's care responsibility) in two dimensions(old and new social risks) have been identified, which reflect theoretical importance. The analysis sets out fuzzy membership scores for 12 OECD countries in the 16 possible welfare state ideal types. This paper found that each country has its own strategies to deal with the changes, however, the changes are not dramatic or a qualitative one. This does not mean that there are no changes, but that are no paradigm shifts or path breaking in the welfare state changes.

• Survey Research
• /
• v.11 no.1
• /
• pp.87-105
• /
• 2010

This study purports to empirically examine the potential effect of the level of social trust on their welfare consciousness level. Although previous studies in the field have focused on socio-economic or class-oriented variables, the accumulated results have shown that the effects were inconsistent at best in Korean context. In order to overcome the limits of theoretical assumptions from mainstream Marxists and institutionalists, this study suggests the relative autonomy of social consciousness and its independent effect on welfare consciousness. The analysis shows that both foundational variables, income levels and labor market participation, and the level of social trust have significant impacts upon the respondents' level of welfare consciousness.

• 한국사회정책
• /
• v.25 no.4
• /
• pp.71-104
• /
• 2018

This paper adopts a distributive performance process model of in-work poverty based on labor markets, households, and welfare states and analyzes the 4-11 waves of the Korean Welfare Panel Study during 2008-15. Previous studies on in-work poverty have focused on the definitions and concepts of in-work poverty by analyzing employment and unemployment persistence and repetition dynamics, but rarely paid attention to institutional distributive performance. In this regard, this study preforms a stepwise analysis of labor markets, households, and welfare states as a process of income generation in labor markets, satisfaction of welfare needs and income pooling at households, and deduction of social security contribution and income tax as well as receipt of public transfer income at welfare states. Results of empirical analysis show that in-work poverty had been on increase during 2008-11, followed by a decrease between 2012-15. At labor market stages, full time status had the most prominent impact on in-work poverty process, while status by employment and contract type have generated a huge variation as well. At household stages, household work intensity and number of earners contributed to reduction of in-work poverty, but the relations did not seen to be straightforward. However, welfare state played little role in lifting employees out of in-work poverty. In terms of institutional distributive process, in-work poverty was prevalent in either household-welfare state stage or labor market-household-welfare stage. Non-vulnerable group in terms of in-risk poverty was around 80% of the sample during the period of analysis, the size of which has remained constant.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
• /
• v.67 no.4
• /
• pp.203-226
• /
• 2015

It is widely accepted that one of the main challenges of the 21st century welfare state is how to harmonize 'Old Welfare, Old Risks' which mostly consists of income maintenance programs with 'New Welfare, New Risks' which actively advances social services. It is in this regard that this paper attempts to define the relationship between the income maintenance programs and social services. For this purpose, it analyses social expenditure of 18 OECD countries during 1980-2006, and subsequently attests, if there is a trade-off relationship between the two, using correlation and Granger panel analysis. It duly concludes that the trade-off relationship between the two is not valid in that the two are better understood as a complementary relationship, not substitute relationship.

• Vending industry
• /
• v.6 no.3 s.18
• /
• pp.38-40
• /
• 2006

"국가가 나서 음주율을 줄인다." 보건복지부는 얼마 전 '파랑새 플랜 2010'으로 명명된 이색적인 정책 하나를 발표했다. 최근 두드러진 국민들의 음주량 증가를 개선하기 위한 국가알코올 종합대책이 바로 그 것. 정부가 국민의 음주율까지 줄이겠다는 발상 자체가 흥미롭지 않을 수 없다. 이런 대책이 제시될 만큼 국민들의 음주량 증가는 두드러지다. 조세연구원에 따르면 1인당 연간 순수 알콜 소비량은 $9.3\ell$로 경제협력개발기구(OECD) 국가 중 19위이다. 특히 소주, 위스키 등 독한 술 소비량은 세계 4위라 한다. 20대이상 성인남녀의 음주율은 지난 1989년 45.8%에서 지난해에는 59.2%로 증가했다고 한다. 술에 대해 지나치게 관대하고 술을 많이 마시는 게 미덕인 것처럼 여기는 술 문화가 문제이다. 국가가 이를 바로 잡아 보겠다고 나서는 것은 음주가 개인의 기호만의 문제가 아니라 각종 술로 인한 사고는 물론 건강악화 등 폐단이 심각하기 때문이다. 이런 현실 속에서 음주측정자판기의 등장은 시기적절해 보인다. 과연 자판기로서의 사업성이 얼마나 되느냐 하는 얄팍한 계산보다, 건전한 음주문화를 조성하는 이기라는 점에 더 관심의 포커스를 맞추어야 한다. 그만큼 공공성 최고인 자판기의 등장은 환영할 일이다. 성공정인 시장진입으로 필드 곳곳에서 "알콜 그만!"의 차단사로서의 혁혁한 활약이 기대되고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
• /
• 2013.07a
• /
• pp.251-254
• /
• 2013

현재 많은 국가들이 복지를 위해 많은 투자와 지원을 하고 있으며, 이러한 시대의 배경을 바탕으로 복지에 많은 관심이 몰리고 있으며, 연구들이 이루어지고 있다. 전 세계적으로 의료가 발달하면서 인간의 수명은 늘어나게 되고, 노인들의 증가로 인하여, 노인에 대한 복지가 문제가 되고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 이동에 불편함을 느끼거나, 주기적인 관리나 보호가 필요한 노인들이 집에 있으면서 여러 가지 서비스들을 이용 가능하도록 도와주는 기능을 제공한다. 이 시스템을 사용하는 노인들은 기본적인 혈압이나 몸무게 등 측정과 관련된 서비스를 이용할 수 있고, 기초적인 집안일도 서비스로 이용 받을 수 있다. 또한, 관리자가 집을 방문하고, 관리자는 노인이 설정해 놓은 측정 및 서비스들을 확인할 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
• /
• v.45 no.2
• /
• pp.203-232
• /
• 2014

The purpose of this study is to compare the national quality regulation schemes among four countries, and to find out implications to Korean quality regulation system of social services. For this, this study fixed comparative criteria on national quality regulation schemes, and compared the quality regulation schemes of 4 countries such as England, United States, Singapore and Japan. By reviewing prior relevant studies, three criteria could be suggested.: the level of user centeredness, the effectiveness of regulatory enforcement and stability of operation system. All analysed nations share similarities in that they all eager to provide quality information to their service users and develop nationally acceptable quality standards of social services. On the contrary, differences are identified in the level of regulatory enforcement and establishment of independent body for national quality control. By these results, this study discussed the meaning of these findings and their implications on the development of Korean quality regulation system.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
• /
• v.42 no.2
• /
• pp.205-233
• /
• 2011

This study aims to fathom the relationship between socio-economic security and social cohesion which are two sub-domains of Social Quality, on the institutional context of welfare state. In order to grasp the institutional context of welfare state, the study adopted welfare status theory and measured socio-economic resources of individuals via the status as welfare beneficiary and welfare taxpayer. The study postulates a theoretical model that the socio-economic security domain affects the social cohesion domain. In order to verity the theoretical hypothesis, this study utilized structural equations analysis(SEM) using social survey data conducted in year 2008. Recognition of social trust was included as the core index of social cohesion, and welfare statuses, socio-economic security and social trust were inserted in the sequence. Results revealed that the amount of resource in regards to welfare status of rights had significant influence on the socio-economic security, whereas it had no significant relations in regards to welfare status of duties. The recognition of socio-economic security derived from status of welfare rights and duties were positively associated with recognition of social trust. Also, the recognition of socio-eocnomic security turned out to have significant influence on social trust. Conclusively, among the two sub-domains of Social Quality, the study found that the socio-economic domain has influence on social cohesion domain. Such results suggest that in order to enhance the overall social cohesion in Korea, more delicate arrangement of welfare institutions are required.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
• /
• v.41 no.2
• /
• pp.279-308
• /
• 2010

This study examines the association between family policies and family gap using data for 14 OECD countries. As family policies have different assumptions about women's roles and include variant sub-policies, this study identify two distinct family policies: 'employment support policy' to support women as employed workers and 'caregiving support policy' to support women as caregivers. Meanwhile, women's wage cannot be determined by the effect of 'only' family policy. Therefore, analysis model includes variant macro structure supposed to affect women's labor status and wage, like labor market structure, wage structure(compression), women's social status and economic status, and examines interaction effects between family policies and these labor market and social structures using Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FSQCA). The FSQCA result shows that relatively low family gap is associated with the conjunctual causation of developed 'employment support policy' and compressed wage structure.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
• /
• v.42 no.4
• /
• pp.263-293
• /
• 2011

There have been many studies on the relationship between welfare states and the poverty. Yet, only a few studies have been addressed the poverty alleviation effect of public pension using difference in difference(DID). This study aims to analyze poverty alleviation effect for the old aged of public pension in 10 OECD countries using DID considering welfare states regimes. The empirical analyses are based on panel data of individuals aged 50 and over from two sources: SHARE in Europe(wave I~II) and HRS in USA(2004~2006). As a result of simple DID, this study provides evidence that the poverty rate of the old aged who has not been received the pension is increased, while the poverty rate of pensioner is sharply decreased. The anti-poverty effect of public pension using DID is 45.6% which is bigger than that of pre/post approach. The policy impact used by pre/post approach in conservative welfare regime is underestimated while those in liberal and socialist regime are overestimated. In last, GDP growth rate has not significant while public pension contributes to poverty alleviation effects of the old aged. Poverty alleviation effects of public pension are also varied with welfare state regimes. The poverty alleviation effects of public pension in conservative welfare and social democratic welfare state regime are significantly bigger than that in liberal welfare state regime.