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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2016.7.4.217

An Analysis on the Regional Convergence of Social Welfare Services in Korea  

Kim, Sung Tai (Department of Economics, Cheongju University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.7, no.4, 2016 , pp. 217-227 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper analyzes whether social welfare services converge across the regions. We tested whether local social welfare services converge considering the congestion rate of local social welfare services during the 1985-2013 periods in Korea, using the sixteen higher level local governments panel data. The main findings are as follows. First, the absolute level of local social welfare services converge so that the -convergence exists. Second, the growth rate of local social welfare services increases as the intial level of local social welfare services is lower so that there exists -convergence. The policy implications of our findings are as follows. The local government had better consider the presence of local social welfare services in policy decision making. Also, fundamentally the social welfare policies had better be executed by the central government rather than local governments, since the national minimum welfare must be provided.
Keywords
Social Welfare Service; ${\beta}$-Convergence; $\sigma$-Convergence;
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