Universalism versus residualism

A micro-simulation of alternative income maintenance schemes in South Korea

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ID12937483
AutoresNari Park (Chung-Ang University, autor de correspondencia), Kyo‐seong Kim (Chung-Ang University)
Año2024
Volumen32
Número2
Páginas212-235
Fecha de publicación2024-01-24
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Poverty and Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1759-8273 • E-ISSN: 1759-8281
EditorialPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/17598273y2023d000000013
OpenAlexW4391164602
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas12

This article examines the past, present and future of income maintenance schemes in Korea. Historically, income security schemes have been built on the idea of work-centred social insurance supplemented by social assistance. This approach was based on the premise of full employment. While current schemes have achieved institutional completeness and have contributed to alleviating poverty and inequality, they have exhibited limitations in responding to the qualitative shifts of capitalism, leading to welfare blind spots. Various alternatives have been proposed, such as universal basic income (UBI), which aims for equality, and residual Safety Income (SI), which aims for efficiency. The objective of this study is to validate the effects of basic income proposals and SI as alternative income maintenance schemes emerging in Korea. We simulated and compared the poverty alleviation and income redistribution effects of the two alternatives using data from the Survey of Household Finances and Living Conditions (2019~2021). The effects of poverty alleviation and income distribution were determined by analysing the hypothetical changes in absolute and relative poverty rates, as well as the Gini coefficient. The efficiency of benefits was assessed as the ratio of the amount used to reduce the poverty gap out of the total benefit amount. The study found that while SI appeared cost-effective in addressing absolute poverty, UBI was also effective in addressing relative poverty and income inequality

Demographic economics · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Extreme poverty · Geography · Gini coefficient · Household income · Income distribution · Inequality · Labour economics · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Public economics · Social security · Universalism · Welfare · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Mathematics · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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