Young Jun Choi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4263605 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Young Jun Choi |
| PRENOMES | Young Jun |
| SOBRENOME | Choi |
| ASSINATURA | CHOI Y J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4826-2689 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Unequal policy responsiveness in crisis
This article examines why policy ideas emerging during crises sometimes become institutionalised while in other cases they remain unimplemented. We argue that policy responsiveness is shaped by unequal instrumental and structural power across first-tier and second-tier citizens. In South Korea, this hierarchy reflected institutional legacies of developmental citizenship, which accorded privileged status to workers in conglomerates and manufacturi…
Under what conditions do people accept health inequality? A cross-national regression analysis of OECD countries
Shifting determinants of socioeconomic status in North Korea
Social Capital in North Korea
Since the collapse of the command economy in the 1990s, North Korea has experienced profound changes driven by bottom-up marketization. This paper examines the impact of informal marketization on “social capital” (defined as shared norms and social networks) in North Korea. Our study investigates whether and to what extent the shadow economy has influenced social capital in the region. We gathered data through a survey of 1309 defectors, intervie…
Scaling up policy entrepreneurship strategies from the local to the national level
Introducing Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the official agenda-setting is rare, although not a completely unlikely occurrence. Although policy entrepreneurs can strongly push this agenda, whether their efforts are successful depends on their specific strategies as well as the contextual institutional features where their actions take place. This study aims to investigate why UBI proposals have risen to the point of becoming a national-level pres…
Diversity within universality
The response to the global COVID‐19 pandemic has prompted a surge in short‐term universal cash transfer programmes around the world. Notably, East Asian high‐income economies have been at the forefront of these initiatives. While the innovative nature of these universal cash injections has been emphasized, there is limited documentation regarding their characteristics, prospects, and underlying motivations. This article sheds light on the domesti…
Changing Welfare Mix and Discretion Mix in Social Care Services in South Korea
Social care services have been rapidly restructured over the last two decades. This chapter addresses the question of how to understand these changes with theoretical concepts of welfare mix and discretion mix. While the “welfare-mix” approach has been widely adopted in social care literature, it often fails to capture the role of autonomy and decision-making power in systems of social care. To fill that gap, we extend the concept of discretion—a…
Three Policy Alternatives for Advancing Active Citizenship
This article discusses three policy ideas that address the limitations of the traditional welfare state: universal basic income (UBI), universal basic services (UBS), and the social economy. As a lens from which to evaluate these policy alternatives, we develop a concept of active citizenship as an interactive and recursive process between people's equal political influence and the institutional conditions in which they are placed. While the soci…
Do childcare policies and schedule control enhance variable time workers' work–life balance? A gender analysis across European countries
Variable time work is no longer abnormal in the post‐industrial economy and is accelerating due to digitisation and the COVID‐19 pandemic. Previous studies have revealed a causal relationship between working time variability and work–life balance at the individual level; however, there has been less discussion of the role of the institutional context. This study examines the interplay among childcare policy, schedule control, and its relationship…
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea
North Koreans have relied on the shadow economy since the collapse of socialism in the 1990s, but little is known about the degree to which informal markets have influenced the country's everyday politics. Based on a large-scale survey of defectors, as well as interviews with almost 100 defectors, including some who had been high-ranking officials prior to leaving North Korea, this article finds that the shadow economy has elicited many changes. …
Social Mobility from a Gender Perspective
From “new social risks” to “Covid social risks”
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 “ol…
Who spends more to combat Covid‐19 social risks and why
COVID-19 has gone beyond a public health crisis and poses a serious threat to people's livelihoods. In response to the growing employment and income crisis, most OECD countries have introduced various policies and programs to alleviate rapidly rising social risks and stabilise people's livelihoods. However, these measures vary, with some governments spending only 1% of GDP in 2020, while others spent more than 10%. We conducted a multiple regress…
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy
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,…
Why do they depend on the private sector of childcare in South Korea
Why the Discretion Mix Matters
This study aims to extend the concept of discretion , ie, a certain degree of freedom in crucial decisions left to specific actors, to understand and examine the transformation of social care services in the era of aging and austerity. Although previous studies have reviewed and analyzed changes in care provision, they have been less concerned with who has the authority to make care decisions in the implementation process. We propose a new theore…
What makes hybrid insourcing successful
Outsourcing has been a key policy tool for delivering a range of social services, and regarded as more effective than insourcing or direct government provision. At the same time, it has also caused many delivery issues such as principal‐agent problems, a lack of policy coordination, and poor‐quality welfare services. While the pendulum continues to swing between insourcing and outsourcing, we aim to propose a new public–private partnership model …
Does social protection crowd out social investment
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, f…
Innovation and welfare
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 contr…
When flexibility meets familialism
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…
Beyond familialism
This Special Issue takes on a new cross-regional comparison between Southern Europe and East Asia in an attempt to identify ‘new politics’ of welfare state adjustments. Departing from the previous literature that overemphasized regional peculiarities of East Asian and Southern European welfare states, our Special Issue highlights family resemblances – among Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain. We argue that these four welfare states – often labelled as…
Revisiting the Role of Bureaucrats in Pension Policy-making
This article aims to provide an understanding of the dynamics of pension politics in South Korea with a particular focus on the role of bureaucrats. In order to explain the reforms, this research will closely examine how the expertise and legitimacy of civil servants, together with their institutional positioning, have affected their power and role in the policy-making process. This article will argue that bureaucrats, particularly the welfare bu…
Farewell to old legacies? The introduction of long-term care insurance in South Korea
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 Kore…
End of the Era of Productivist Welfare Capitalism? Diverging Welfare Regimes in East Asia
Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states
Kim JW, Choi YJ. Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states: consolidating cross‐regime variations? According to some theorists, the feminisation of poverty has become a common feature in the majority of advanced welfare states, but there have been very few attempts to provide a detailed picture from a comparative perspective. Considering this background, the aim of present study was to illuminate the feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare state…
End of the Era of Productivist Welfare Capitalism? Diverging Welfare Regimes in East Asia
Farewell to old legacies? The introduction of long-term care insurance in South Korea
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 Kore…
From “new social risks” to “Covid social risks”
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 “ol…
Beyond familialism
This Special Issue takes on a new cross-regional comparison between Southern Europe and East Asia in an attempt to identify ‘new politics’ of welfare state adjustments. Departing from the previous literature that overemphasized regional peculiarities of East Asian and Southern European welfare states, our Special Issue highlights family resemblances – among Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain. We argue that these four welfare states – often labelled as…
Does family still matter? Public and private transfers in emerging welfare state systems in a comparative perspective
Kim JW, Choi YJ. Does family still matter? Public and private transfers in emerging welfare state systems in a comparative perspective Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 353–366 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. While the role of the family has been a distinctive feature of East Asian welfare systems, rapid social policy development and reforms i…
International Social Work
When flexibility meets familialism
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…
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea
North Koreans have relied on the shadow economy since the collapse of socialism in the 1990s, but little is known about the degree to which informal markets have influenced the country's everyday politics. Based on a large-scale survey of defectors, as well as interviews with almost 100 defectors, including some who had been high-ranking officials prior to leaving North Korea, this article finds that the shadow economy has elicited many changes. …
Contrasting approaches to old-age income protection in Korea and Taiwan
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 wi…
Revisiting the Role of Bureaucrats in Pension Policy-making
This article aims to provide an understanding of the dynamics of pension politics in South Korea with a particular focus on the role of bureaucrats. In order to explain the reforms, this research will closely examine how the expertise and legitimacy of civil servants, together with their institutional positioning, have affected their power and role in the policy-making process. This article will argue that bureaucrats, particularly the welfare bu…
Study Examines Daily Public Journalism at Six Newspapers
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
Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states
Kim JW, Choi YJ. Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states: consolidating cross‐regime variations? According to some theorists, the feminisation of poverty has become a common feature in the majority of advanced welfare states, but there have been very few attempts to provide a detailed picture from a comparative perspective. Considering this background, the aim of present study was to illuminate the feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare state…
Who spends more to combat Covid‐19 social risks and why
COVID-19 has gone beyond a public health crisis and poses a serious threat to people's livelihoods. In response to the growing employment and income crisis, most OECD countries have introduced various policies and programs to alleviate rapidly rising social risks and stabilise people's livelihoods. However, these measures vary, with some governments spending only 1% of GDP in 2020, while others spent more than 10%. We conducted a multiple regress…
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy
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,…
Why do they depend on the private sector of childcare in South Korea
Does social protection crowd out social investment
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, f…
So near, yet so far
An increasing number of policy learning studies have provided practical suggestions for the direction of welfare developments and reforms in East Asia. However, these have been carried out without a solid theoretical basis. This article aims to analyse the issues of existing policy learning research and explore the connecting point between welfare regime research and policy learning, specifically taking the Korean case as an example. The article …
Scaling up policy entrepreneurship strategies from the local to the national level
Introducing Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the official agenda-setting is rare, although not a completely unlikely occurrence. Although policy entrepreneurs can strongly push this agenda, whether their efforts are successful depends on their specific strategies as well as the contextual institutional features where their actions take place. This study aims to investigate why UBI proposals have risen to the point of becoming a national-level pres…
Diversity within universality
The response to the global COVID‐19 pandemic has prompted a surge in short‐term universal cash transfer programmes around the world. Notably, East Asian high‐income economies have been at the forefront of these initiatives. While the innovative nature of these universal cash injections has been emphasized, there is limited documentation regarding their characteristics, prospects, and underlying motivations. This article sheds light on the domesti…
Social Mobility from a Gender Perspective
What makes hybrid insourcing successful
Outsourcing has been a key policy tool for delivering a range of social services, and regarded as more effective than insourcing or direct government provision. At the same time, it has also caused many delivery issues such as principal‐agent problems, a lack of policy coordination, and poor‐quality welfare services. While the pendulum continues to swing between insourcing and outsourcing, we aim to propose a new public–private partnership model …
Static Numbers to Dynamic Statistics
The death of physical distance
Study Examines Daily Public Journalism at Six Newspapers
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
The death of physical distance
East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition
Books reviewed: A lan W alker and C hack ‐ kie W ong , East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation
Pathways to State Welfare in Korea
International Social Work
So near, yet so far
An increasing number of policy learning studies have provided practical suggestions for the direction of welfare developments and reforms in East Asia. However, these have been carried out without a solid theoretical basis. This article aims to analyse the issues of existing policy learning research and explore the connecting point between welfare regime research and policy learning, specifically taking the Korean case as an example. The article …
Does family still matter? Public and private transfers in emerging welfare state systems in a comparative perspective
Kim JW, Choi YJ. Does family still matter? Public and private transfers in emerging welfare state systems in a comparative perspective Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 353–366 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. While the role of the family has been a distinctive feature of East Asian welfare systems, rapid social policy development and reforms i…
Contrasting approaches to old-age income protection in Korea and Taiwan
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 wi…
Static Numbers to Dynamic Statistics
End of the Era of Productivist Welfare Capitalism? Diverging Welfare Regimes in East Asia
Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states
Kim JW, Choi YJ. Feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare states: consolidating cross‐regime variations? According to some theorists, the feminisation of poverty has become a common feature in the majority of advanced welfare states, but there have been very few attempts to provide a detailed picture from a comparative perspective. Considering this background, the aim of present study was to illuminate the feminisation of poverty in 12 welfare state…
Farewell to old legacies? The introduction of long-term care insurance in South Korea
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 Kore…
Revisiting the Role of Bureaucrats in Pension Policy-making
This article aims to provide an understanding of the dynamics of pension politics in South Korea with a particular focus on the role of bureaucrats. In order to explain the reforms, this research will closely examine how the expertise and legitimacy of civil servants, together with their institutional positioning, have affected their power and role in the policy-making process. This article will argue that bureaucrats, particularly the welfare bu…
When flexibility meets familialism
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…
Beyond familialism
This Special Issue takes on a new cross-regional comparison between Southern Europe and East Asia in an attempt to identify ‘new politics’ of welfare state adjustments. Departing from the previous literature that overemphasized regional peculiarities of East Asian and Southern European welfare states, our Special Issue highlights family resemblances – among Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain. We argue that these four welfare states – often labelled as…
Why the Discretion Mix Matters
This study aims to extend the concept of discretion , ie, a certain degree of freedom in crucial decisions left to specific actors, to understand and examine the transformation of social care services in the era of aging and austerity. Although previous studies have reviewed and analyzed changes in care provision, they have been less concerned with who has the authority to make care decisions in the implementation process. We propose a new theore…
What makes hybrid insourcing successful
Outsourcing has been a key policy tool for delivering a range of social services, and regarded as more effective than insourcing or direct government provision. At the same time, it has also caused many delivery issues such as principal‐agent problems, a lack of policy coordination, and poor‐quality welfare services. While the pendulum continues to swing between insourcing and outsourcing, we aim to propose a new public–private partnership model …
Does social protection crowd out social investment
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, f…
Innovation and welfare
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 contr…
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy
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,…
Why do they depend on the private sector of childcare in South Korea
From “new social risks” to “Covid social risks”
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 “ol…
Who spends more to combat Covid‐19 social risks and why
COVID-19 has gone beyond a public health crisis and poses a serious threat to people's livelihoods. In response to the growing employment and income crisis, most OECD countries have introduced various policies and programs to alleviate rapidly rising social risks and stabilise people's livelihoods. However, these measures vary, with some governments spending only 1% of GDP in 2020, while others spent more than 10%. We conducted a multiple regress…
Changing Welfare Mix and Discretion Mix in Social Care Services in South Korea
Social care services have been rapidly restructured over the last two decades. This chapter addresses the question of how to understand these changes with theoretical concepts of welfare mix and discretion mix. While the “welfare-mix” approach has been widely adopted in social care literature, it often fails to capture the role of autonomy and decision-making power in systems of social care. To fill that gap, we extend the concept of discretion—a…
Three Policy Alternatives for Advancing Active Citizenship
This article discusses three policy ideas that address the limitations of the traditional welfare state: universal basic income (UBI), universal basic services (UBS), and the social economy. As a lens from which to evaluate these policy alternatives, we develop a concept of active citizenship as an interactive and recursive process between people's equal political influence and the institutional conditions in which they are placed. While the soci…
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