The Welfare State and Redistribution in Korea

被引：1

作者：

Hwang, Gyu-Jin ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Sydney, Dept Sociol & Social Policy, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

来源：

SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY | 2016年 / 15卷 / 04期

关键词：

Korea; welfare state; redistribution; labour market; public transfers; INEQUALITY; INSTITUTIONS; TRANSFERS;

D O I：

10.1017/S1474746415000408

中图分类号：

D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];

学科分类号：

摘要：

This article aims to account for why the redistributive effect of the Korean welfare state remains meagre. Given the fact that its small size is already a well-known factor, it directs its attention to the design and structural features of key social provisions and their distributional profile. Its findings suggest that the design features of social provisions are progressive but their distributional profiles are not. This is because there are other factors that undermine the seemingly progressive design of the welfare system in Korea. The article argues that in order to establish a fair and efficient welfare state, it is not only any increase in size that is important but also correction of the factors that diminish the progressivity of the welfare system.

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页码：571 / 587

页数：17