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KMID : 1001320090360010279
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Social Welfare Policy
2009 Volume.36 No. 1 p.279 ~ p.305
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A Comparison of Social Assistance Packages in Nine OECD Countries
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Jung In-Young
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Abstract
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All industrialized countries have social assistance and provide a minimum income on the basis of a test of means for people below a certain poverty line. This study seeks to assess the level of generosity of the social assistance package in Korea. For this, using the model family method, it compares the structure and level of social assistance packages in nine OECD countries in order to explore how Korea is doing compared to other countries-in relation to structure, level, replacement ratios and implied equivalence scales. First, the study describes the general social assistance schemes that exist in the nine countries. It then compares the structure and level of the social assistance package in terms of purchasing power parities and how the value of the package varies by the number of children, family type and housing costs and other services. It then explores the implied equivalence scales of social assistance. Compared with other countries, overall Korea has the lowest levels of benefit and its implied equivalence scales for singles and childless couples are lowest among the countries considered. Some suggestions are made for reforming social assistance benefit.
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KEYWORD
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generosity of social assistance, Level of social assistance package, model family method, implied equivalence scale
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