Population aging is directly related to the rise of the life expectancy and/or the declining of birth rates. The speeds of the population aging and declining of birth rates have dramatically been increasing and these problems have been grown big social issues. And they will gradually be...

The welfare of the elderly becomes one of the emerging problems in Asia, whose baby boomers are about to become the elderly. Few studies, however, have addressed their "potential Need" for social welfare that is expected to rapidly rise soon after retirement. The potential need of these...

Social welfare is a major issue in both developing and developed countries, including Korea. Political parties are especially struggling with the choice between universal or selective welfare but hardly any clear guidelines exist. This paper reviews universal versus selective welfare concepts...

Social welfare is a major issue in both developing and developed countries, including Korea. Political parties are especially struggling with the choice between universal or selective welfare but hardly any clear guidelines exist. This paper reviews universal versus selective welfare concepts...

The goal of this study is to build a geographic information system for environmental policymaking. To achieve this goal, this study first surveys the local environment status. Based upon the collected environmental data, it forecasts the future environmental status of each city in Gyeongbuk...

The goal of this study is to identify the long-term relationship between housing value and interest rate in the Korean housing market, using the Cointegration Test and Spectral Analysis. The result shows the long-term negative (-) equilibrium relationship between housing values and interest...

Population structure in current Korea is characterized as "aging society". Under this aging society, the prompt and large-scale expansion of welfare for the elderly is required to meet the welfare demand. To figure out the factors influencing welfare spending, we test how the mobilization power...

This study basically focuses on the analysis of the net effect of the government R&D support program on the local firms' technology development and its performance. And then it examines whether and how much R&D raises the effects of local firms' technology development and its performance. It...

The basic concept of a reverse mortgage is loan available to homeowners who are 65 years or older that enables them to convert part of the equity in their home into cash. The loan is called a reverse mortgage because the traditional mortgage payback stream is reversed. Instead of making monthly...