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KMID : 0379220110310020321
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2011 Volume.31 No. 2 p.321 ~ p.341
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The Effects of the transfer Income on Poverty Decrease of Grandparents-grandchildren Households: Comparing Grandparents-grandchildren with Living Alone, Couple, and Living with Adulthood Children
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Min Ki-Chae
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to examine income composition elements, poverty rate, and the effects of the transfer income on poverty decrease comparing grandparents-grandchildren households with living alone, couple, and living with adulthood children. Data come from the first(2005) and the second(2007) Korean Retirement and Income Study(KReIS) and the effects of poverty decrease is examined through reconstruction of LIS income definition. The main findings are as follows. First, the total income of the grandparents-grandchildren in 2006 is the lowest and about one-fourth of the households living with adulthood children. Second, the labor income of all households are increasing but the only grandparents-grandchildren’s labor income is decreasing. Third, three of ten in grandparents- grandchildren households are in poverty, the poorest households’s type is the grandparents-grandchildren in 2006. Fourth, four of ten in grandparents-grandchildren is able to escape poverty after including private and public transfer income. Especially, the effects of the public transfer income in grandparents-grandchildren households is lower in 2006 than in 2004, thus the
role of public income security is strongly needed. Existing research was that the poorest type among the elderly group was the living-alone households, but this results show that grandparents -grandchildren households are the poorest group. Thus, income security policy is highly needed for poor skipped-generation households.
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KEYWORD
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grandparents-grandchildren households, transfer income, poverty decrease, the elderly poverty
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