• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.87-114
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• 2009

Most previous studies on income inequality have limitations in reflecting recent changes and heterogeneity in women's working patterns and their family structure by regarding them as a homogeneous group. This study aims to investigate the trends of income inequality among women during the past 9 years since 1997 and to examine what is the most influential factor on these changes. The results show that the overall trend of income inequality among women is decreasing due to the income decrease of the middle class women and the income increase of the lower class. Among various factors, education, age, and marital status are key factors affecting inequality changes during this period. This study has the following policy implications: first, it is necessary to implement the child care services for the divorced and separated women, who are more likely to fall in poverty. Second, the increase of the basic pension benefits is needed particularly for the poor old women, who is more likely live longer in a desperate status.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.37-71
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• 2018

Since 2016, public and political interest on basic income has been increased beyond academic interest. The recent debate on basic income has expanded on issues regarding to the concrete implementation of basic income moving further than the debate on conception of the basic income in the abstract level. This study examines major critiques of basic income which was raised from social policy area and makes a counter-argument on these critiques. Major points summarized as follows. First, the problem of jobs and social insurance exclusion is not serious enough to call for basic income. Second, existing social security systems will be crowded out by excessive financial burden if basic income is introduced. Third, policies to cultivate citizens' capacities to cope with a technological change should be given priority over basic income. This study disputes these critiques by counter arguing four points. First, it is necessary to reconstruct welfare state based on basic income, given the labor market changes, such as long-term trend of employment change, newly emerging employment of platform companies, and inconsistency of platform labor and social insurance. Second, hypothesis of crowding-out effect on social security system is just a criticism that can be applied to the basic income initiative of the right-wing. Also, it is unable to find a logical basis or evidence of this hypothesis from the historical process of welfare state development or previous studies. Third, it is necessary to discuss how to reconfigure existing social security system and basic income which are complementary to each other and also have consistency with labor market as a configuration, not as a matter of choosing between basic income and social security system. Fourth, de-laborization does not mean a refusal to labor but a free choice, and the basic principle of social security is not needs but right. In conclusion, in order to develop more productive debate on basic income, it requires more sophisticated discussion and criticism from the point of view of the distributive justice; the debate on the sustainability of social insurance-centered welfare states; and debates on the political realization of basic income.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.638-649
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• 2019

The development of career knowledge and career attitude in adolescence is significant to achieve a successful transition to adulthood. The aim of this study was to assess effects of family income and career guidance and counseling experience on changes in career maturity during the transition from high school to college. The study used data from Youth Panel 2007 collected by Korea Employment Information Service. The data included 456 adolescents who were high school students in the first and third waves of survey and college students in the fifth wave of survey. The results suggested that family income was a significant factor affecting the career maturity of adolescents. The experience of career guidance and counseling while in high school had a sustained and positive impact on the career maturity of adolescents even after entering college. Therefore, career education in the secondary educational system should expand continuously.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.123-138
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• 2017

This study estimates the effect of the Kyoto Protocol on $CO_2$ emissions with a Quandt-Andrews test for detection of structural break with Annex B counties data. The structural break on $CO_2$ emissions took place in 2008 which is 3 year after ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. According to the empirical results, 1% increase in energy consumption leads to 1% and 0.31% increases in income before and after the structural break, respectively. This study also finds the monotonic increase relationship between $CO_2$ emission and income. Regarding to the relationship between renewable energy use and $CO_2$ emissions, 1% increase in renewable energy consumption leads to 0.1% decrease in $CO_2$ emissions until year 2007 and 0.09% decreases after year 2008, respectively. Based on the results of empirical study, we find little evidence of the effect of the Kyoto Protocol on reduction of $CO_2$ emissions for Annex B countries.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.39-53
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• 2021

Purpose: This study examined the dietary behavior, health status and nutrient intake by considering the level of household income of elderly people using data obtained from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey (KNHANES VII) 2018. Methods: The study subjects were 1,355 elderly people over 65 years old (558 men, 797 women). Based on their household income, participants were classified into three groups: low-income, middle-income, and high-income. The variables consisted of general characteristics, dietary behavior, health status, health related behavior, and dietary intakes. Dietary data were estimated by the 24-hour dietary recall. Results: In men, the low-income group encompassed older, less educated, less employed, and living with family of first generation. However, in women, there were no differences in employment by the level of income, and women living alone had lower income than subjects living with family. Elderly men in the high-income group had a significantly higher level of nutrient intake (energy, protein, fat, phosphorous, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin C). Men in the low-income group consumed a significantly lower intake of fruits, seaweeds and eggs, including total food. Women in the low-income group had significantly less intake of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorous, iron, vitamin A, riboflavin, and niacin whereas women in the high-income group had significantly higher intake of sugar & sweet, eggs, and beverages, including total food. Conclusion: These results suggest that the level of household income is an important factor that influences food and nutrient intake in the Korean elderly. The socioeconomic status needs to be considered differently among elderly men and women when implementing food assistant programs and designing nutrition education programs.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.109-126
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• 2005

There are several changes of living conditions in Korea during the past 40 years. The changes in living conditions are the change of family type, the increase in income, the aging society, the introduction of five-working day, the protection of environment, etc. These changes bring about a social phenomenon so-called the well-being which seek after the pleasure of healthy life. This study is based on the limited literature reviews, focusing on the correct understanding these changes and the well-being life style in Korea in order to provide the enterprise with some insights.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.127-144
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• 1995

통일기금의 목적은 현재의 소비를 줄이고 총저축(정부저축+민간저축)을 증가시키는 것이다. 그럼으로써 현재의 부(富)를 통일(統一)이 되는 시점으로 이전(移轉)시키고자 하는 것이다. 과연 이 목적은 달성될 수 있는가? 본 연구는 이에 대한 이론적인 분석을 시도하고 있다. 국채(國債)를 발행하여 조세의 부과시점(賦課時點)을 달리하더라도 경제주체의 소비수준은 변화하지 않는다는 주장이 있다(대등정리(對等定理), Ricardian Equivalence Theorem). 통일기금(統一基金)을 조성하는 것도 국채발행(國債發行)과 비교하여 부(富)의 이전방향(移轉方向)이 다를 뿐 징세시점(徵稅時點)의 변화라는 점은 동일하다. 따라서 대등정리에 의하면 통일기금의 목적은 달성될 수 없다. 조성된 통일기금만큼 민간 저축이 감소하기 때문이다. 그러나 통일기금에는 국채(國債)와 구별되는 두가지 본질적인 특징이 있다. 통일시점과 통일비용이 모두 불확실하다는 점이다. 이 두가지 불확실성은 미래의 가처분소득을 불확실하게 한다. 이와 같이 미래소득이 불확실할 때에는 대등정리가 성립하지 않는다는 것이 종래의 연구결과였다. 그러나 본고(本稿)는 2기(期) 중첩세대모형(重疊世代模型)(Overlapping Generations Model)을 이용하여 이 두가지 불확실성에도 불구하고 여전히 대등정리(對等定理)가 성립함을 보이고 있다. 즉 통일기금은 민간저축을 감소시키므로 총저축을 변화시키지 못한다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.56 no.4
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• pp.57-78
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• 2004

The economic crisis in $1997{\sim}1998$ caused massive unemployment and unprecedentedly increased the number of the poor in Korea. As many unemployed families fell into poverty, the poverty rate skyrocketed to higher than 10 percent. Not later than 2000, unemployment late got back to normal and real average income among urban households approached to the income level prior to the economic crisis. Although the economic crisis has been passed through, poverty was not decreased to the low level prior to the crisis by 2000. Why does it remain high? This study attempts to provide an answer to this question by analysing the poverty trend over the 1990s. Data come from the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditures 1991, 1996, and 20001. Results show that poverty was rapidly reduced in the first half period of the 1990s. This reduction in poverty is largely explained by steady and rapid economic growth. Modest improvement in income inequality also contributed. In contrast, the poverty rate considerably increased in the latter half of the 1990s. Average income was not fully recovered to its prior level, which reflected the economic crisis and the subsequent economic stagnation. Worsened income inequality led to higher poverty rate too. In addition, demographic changes increased the share of economically vulnerable types of families, such as families headed by single parents and the elderly. The most significant factor in explaining the higher poverty rate was extended income differential among non-elderly adults, while the next was the increased number of the elderly families. Yet, findings a little differ depending on which concepts of poverty to adopt. In the analyses based on the concept of absolute poverty, economic growth the most significantly affected the poverty trends in the 1999s. Changes in income inequality played the most important role in explaining the trend in relative poverty. Adopting the concepts of quasi-absolute poverty, which is preferred in this study, results show that rapid economic growth significantly reduced poverty in the first half of the 1990s and both worsened income inequality and stagnated economic growth increased poverty in the latter 1990s.

• Korean Journal of Family Social Work
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• no.56
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• pp.135-167
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• 2017

This study aims to examine the change of state-market-family as three welfare provisions. This exploratory study investigates the change of welfare provisions and life of the elderly for 25 North Korean refugees focusing the actual condition of income security for the elderly using the snowball sampling. The main results are followings. First, in the age of Kim Il Sung showed the state-led, market absence, family supplementation and in the age of Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un showed the state diminishment, market appearance, family supplementation in terms of welfare provisions. Second, there is disparity between institution and reality because the law don't prescribe the responsibility of market provisions for the people but the elderly should have made a living in the market since the early 1990s. The situation of 'the weaken state and strengthened market' in the age of Kim Jong Il have still continued in the age of Kim Jong Un. The formal income security for the elderly need to return to the former condition.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.8
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• pp.144-156
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• 1999

한국전쟁 이후 한국의 경제성장은 세계에서 유래가 없을 정도로 급속도로 이루어져 왔다. 연평균 10%에 가까운 경제성장으로 IMF를 맞기 이전에는 1인당 국민소득 1만불을 달성하고 OECD에 가입하여 선진국의 문턱까지 도달하였다. 그러나 IMF로 귀결된 경제적 모순의 누적은 한국경제의 근본적인 성장잠재력에 의심을 갖게 만들었다. 세계화와 환경문제로 대표되는 세계경제 환경의 변화는 생산요소의 대량 투입을 통한 양적 성장을 통해 뒷받침되어온 한국경제의 성장방식에 근본적인 변화를 요구하고 있다. (중략)