Comparative Study on Social Expenditure and Soundness of Public Finance of OECD Country

Abstract

공공사회복지지출의 구조와 전망에 대한 국가간 비교를 통해 합리적이고 실증적으로 제시하여 향후 지출규모와 재정건전성의 변화를 가능할 수 있는 기초자료를 제공 사회ㆍ경제ㆍ정치적 환경에 대한 다각적 분석을 통해 복지국가 발전과 재편에의 영향을 파악함으로써 향후 방향성에 대한 보다 의미있는 함의 제공

Since after economical crash of southern europe, many scholars and International organizations including OECD have produced many research papers on background and remedies of ill-fated economies of southern europe. Recommendations made by experts and OECD include welfare reform of countries of southern europe especially Greece. Even though welfare reform is one aspect of improving soundness of public finance of these countries, medias in Korea have made efforts to illuminate troubles of welfare states. Since Korea is in crossroad in development stages of social security system, lessons from southern europe should be analyzed thoroughly not to miss real agenda in welfare and economic crisis. This study analyzes social expenditure of OECD countries by grouping countries of different characteristics in absolute levels, composition, and growth patterns of social expenditures. To understand the differences more in depth, political and social environment of these countries are compared to induce background of different outcomes.