Strengthening Social Cohesion in Korea
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Korea is confronting a serious challenges. It has to improve income equality in the context of a severe demographic transition. Such a transition, from one of the youngest populations in the OECD at present to the second oldest by 2050, may boost the need for public spending and slow economic growth. In this context and as the pace of population ageing is accelerating, it is important to act quickly in a wide range of areas: -Policies to sustain Korea’s growth potential in the face of falling labour inputs; -Measures that improve both growth and equality; -Carefully-targeted increases in social spending to reduce inequality and poverty; -Financing higher social spending, with priority given to a reform of tax and social security that minimises the negative impact on output growth. Against the background of these broad challenges, which are discussed in a specific, setting-the-ground, Chapter, the report suggests policy options, based on the practices and reforms of other countries, in the following four areas: I) Income Distribution and Poverty; II) Tackling the Duality of the Labour Market; III) Early Childcare; and IV) Moving beyond Hospitals to better Care in the Community.
Year of publication: |
2013
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Institutions: | OECD (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Paris : OECD Publishing |
Subject: | Soziale Lage | Social situation | Wirtschaftswachstum | Economic growth | Einkommensverteilung | Income distribution | Sozialpolitik | Social policy | Arbeitsmarktsegmentation | Labour market segmentation | Südkorea | South Korea |
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Extent: | Online-Ressource (248 p.) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
ISBN: | 978-92-64-18894-5 |
Other identifiers: | 10.1787/9789264188945-en [DOI] |
Classification: | Soziale Stratifikation, soziale Mobilität |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012449307
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