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KMID : 1124020180340040001
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Korean Social Security Studies
2018 Volume.34 No. 4 p.1 ~ p.31
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Who supports basic income and why?
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Kim Soo-Wan
Ahn Sang-Hoon
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Abstract
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This study examined a technology revolution discourse in South Korea which tends to end up with job reduction and provoke the need for basic income. The study also investigated whether and how the discourse appears in the public attitudes. The analytic model was established based on theoretical discussions on technology development, labor market risks, and basic income. According to the result from LISREL path analysis, public attitudes toward basic income are in a germinal stage that seem to follow the dominant discourse. The results show that men, the higher educated, and the higher household income-holders tend to more recognize future technology development, while women, the lower educated, and the higher household income-holders tend to predict the more increased labor market risk. Individual socio-economic statuses do not affect basic income support directly. Instead, a perception on the labor market risk is to have a direct effect on basic income support. The results imply that the larger the fears of job reduction and the more insufficient the government responses, the more political supports will grow in the future. Finally, this study suggests that the complex operation of ‘self-interest’ and ‘value’ in public attitudes, multi-dimensionality of basic income, and comprehensive strategy of welfare state should be considered in depth in order to understand the welfare politics of basic income in full length.
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KEYWORD
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the 4th industrial revolution, technology development, job reduction, basic income, public attitude, path-analysis, LISREL
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