Welfare state regime
; public social spending(expenditure)
; poverty
; inequality
; quality of society
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs
Abstract
This study compared various welfare states along two dimensions—efforts and outcomes—with a view to finding policy implications for the welfare state in South Korea. To this end, the author compared the trends and current levels of welfare efforts by 23 welfare states in terms of public social spending, and examines the composition of such spending. Next, this study reviewed the distributive outcomes and quality of societies in these welfare states as reflecting the effects of their welfare policies, institutions, tax policies and spending programs.
Table Of Contents
Ⅰ. Introduction 1 Ⅱ. Welfare Efforts 7 1. Levels of Public Social Spending 9 2. Proportion of In-Kind Benefits in Public Social Spending 14 3. Composition of Public Social Spending 21 4. Fuzzy Set Ideal Type Analysis & Re-Categorization 25 Ⅲ. Welfare State Outcomes 31 1. Redistribution: Poverty & Inequality 33 2. Quality of Society: the OECD’s Better Life Index 41 3. Efforts & Outcomes of Welfare States: FSITA and Re-Categorization 46 Ⅳ. Conclusion: Current Status of the Korean Welfare State 53 Bibliography 63
