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ABSTRACT South Korea has been experiencing unprecedented socio-economic transformations in which an ageing population is widely regarded as a key challenge. As an unlikely consensus on state intervention in care has emerged since early 2000, South Korea has achieved rapid development of welfare state programmes. The introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008 is one of the important steps. However, it is still highly debatable whether the Korean welfare state has departed from its pa

Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created tremendous hazards to people worldwide. Incidence, hospitalization, and mortality rates have varied by individual and regional socioeconomic indicators. However, little is known about the indirect social and economic losses following the COVID-19 pandemic and to what extent they have disproportionately affected different groups of people. Building on the traditional conceptualizations of “old” and “new social risks,” this article t

증거기반행정은 선진국 및 국제기구에서 주창하는 행정의 핵심적 패러다임으로 자리 잡고 있다. 증거의 양과 질이 증가하면서 합리적 행정결정을 내릴 수 있는 환경은 향상되고 있지만, 여전히 주요 행정결정을 둘러싼 사회적 갈등은 줄어들지 않고 있다. 본 논문은 행정환경에서 존재하는 불확실성에 주목 하면서, 불확실성이 어떻게 증거기반행정과 조화를 이루면서 효과적인 행정결정을 할 수 있는지에 대해 논의하는 것을 목표로 한다. 이를 위해서 서구를 중심으로 제기되었던 증거기반행정을 비판적으로 고찰하면서 장점과 그 한계를 검토하게 될 것이다. 다음으로는 증거, 멘탈모델, 그리고 불확실성 간의 상호작용을 기반으로 의견기반행정, 행정기반증거, 증거기반행정, 그리고 증거영향행정 등 네 가지 행정/정책 의사 결정 유형을 제시하고자 한다. 이후 네 가지 유형들 중 불확실성이 강한 행정환경 하에서 상이하게 나타나는 행정기반증거와 증거영향행정에 해당되는 한미 자유무역협정과 고리원전 사례를 탐색적으로 검토하면서

This themed issue entitled Social Investment in the Knowledge-Based Economy aims to investigate desirable policy packages of social investment for the knowledge-based economy, the interactions between policy and economic inequality, and political and institutional configurations that shape policies. This introduction to our themed issue situates the contribution of the volume in the literature, summarizes the main findings and their implications, and identifies core issues for a future research

Books reviewed: A lan W alker and C hack ‐ kie W ong , East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation.

In this era of austerity, while there are significant fiscal pressures on social protection programs particularly on cash benefits, there is increasing rhetoric concerning the ‘social investment turn.’ Yet, some scholars question whether social investment policies are actually expanding. The evidence is not sufficiently apparent, and others question whether social protection policies have actually crowded out social investment policies. So far, few systematic studies have examined this issue. Th

ABSTRACT Old-age income security has become one of the most important social policy issues in two East Asian emerging welfare states, South Korea and Taiwan, as they transform at a remarkable pace into societies with a representation of older people approaching that of western countries. During the last two decades, the two countries have developed different forms of social protection for older people. South Korea has expanded social insurance pensions with means-tested benefits, whereas Taiwan

Comparisons of online newspapers reveal few differences between public and non-public online papers. Also, online and print editions of the public journalism newspapers did not show that public journalism is better practiced online.

Korea and Spain share crucial labour market and welfare state characteristics that converge to produce similar outcomes: strongly dualized labour markets, weak social protection, and features that are archetypical of familialist states. Labour market flexibility in both countries has recently increased through unusually high levels of temporary employment. Yet, when we analyse female labour force participation, we observe a significant divergence: Korean women interrupt their participation in th

Studies on innovation and welfare are seemingly unrelated and, currently, scholars of innovation and welfare form distinctive groups. However, recent developments in the fields of business and psychology suggest that a social safety net and the positive mental assets that can be developed by implementing carefully designed welfare programs may stimulate innovative activities within a country. Further, they are closely connected due to their contribution to economic growth, which forms the centra