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KMID : 0613620200400020193
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Health Social Welfare Review
2020 Volume.40 No. 2 p.193 ~ p.221
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A Study on the Causes of Poverty in the Elderly: Focusing on Labor Market Experiences and Changes in Family Structure
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Lee Ju-Mi
Kim Tae-Wan
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Abstract
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This study analyzed whether the labor market experience and family structure change in people in their 50s are affecting poverty among the elderly. According to the results of the analysis, the poverty rate of the elderly was low at 9.6% in the case of full-time workers while participating in the main economic activities. For those who had been economically inactive for a long time, elderly poverty rate was almost four times higher. Elderly poverty was higher among women than among men, regardless of their primary economic activity, so gender was more influential than economic activity. In the main job change, it showed a low poverty rate when it was somewhat stable and possessed functions. By company size, it was analyzed that the smaller the company size, the more experienced poverty. Changes in the number of households were 22.7% when the number of households increased, 36.5% when the number of households remained unchanged, and 28.1% when the number of households decreased, affecting elderly poverty. As for the marital status, maintaining the marital status as a married woman in the fifties also affected the poverty rate of the elderly. In order to lower the old-age poverty rate in the future, as the experiences of people in their fifties affect elderly poverty, government support is needed in the labor market for the large burden of spending on the same wages and the difference in welfare by company size. In the case of family structure changes, institutional arrangements are needed to strengthen care, support emotions, and especially support women vulnerable to family structure changes.
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KEYWORD
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Elderly Poverty, Cause of Poverty, Labor Market Gap, Change of Family Structure
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