Pushing Ahead With Reform In Korea Labour Market And Social Safety Net Policies

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926418192X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pushing Ahead with Reform in Korea Labour Market and Social Safety-net Policies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that government labour and social policies, together with improved basic workers’ rights, helped minimise the costs of Korea's economic and financial crisis while also contributing to overcome it.

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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour Market Reform and Social Safety Net Policies in Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Funkoo Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor Market Reforms in Korea written by Funkoo Park and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 17 papers which explore labour market reforms following the 1997 financial crisis. Covers income support programmes, labour law and labour market regulations, active labour market programmes and comparisons of the Korean experience with other countries.

Author : Johanna Schauer
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484360915
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor Market Duality in Korea written by Johanna Schauer and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor market duality is a complex and critical issue for many countries that can lower productivity, contribute to inequality and result in negative externalities. In this paper, I study duality in the Korean labor market and analyze its sources and potential policy options. I find that employment protection legislations and large productivity differentials are the key drivers of Korea’s duality. In addition, applying a general equilibrium search-and-matching model and calibrating it to the Korean economy, I show that well-calibrated flexicurity policies can significantly reduce duality and inequality and raise welfare and productivity. Notably, the introduction of all three pillars—flexiblity, a strong safety net and active labor market policies—is critical for its success. If only one pillar is introduced it can result in negative side-effects and might not reduce duality.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264194509
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovations in Labour Market Policies The Australian Way written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides an in-depth analysis of industrial relations and labour market policies in Australia, with particular attention to recent insights from three years of operating experience with a contestable employment services market.

Author : S. Razavi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524214
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Export Orientated Employment and Social Policy written by S. Razavi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and development theory and analysis is replete with implicit assumptions that women's entry into the world of paid work will positively affect their status both in the household and in the public sphere. Until recently the debate on global factories and export production has remained focused on women's individual experience of export employment- and the extent to which this represents a positive opportunity or gross exploitation. In spite of the extended discussion of rights and citizenship in the global economy, little attention has hitherto been paid to the implications for women's entitlements arising out of their pivotal role in export sectors. Whilst many assume that women's visible and crucial presence in key economic sectors will be reflected in the ways in which social policies are formulated, there has been up to now little empirical and analytical engagement with this question. This volume, bringing together detailed commissioned studies from six developing countries, aims to fill this gap.

Author : Chak Kwan Chan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136680055
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform in East Asia written by Chak Kwan Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian. Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies - including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau - this book critically analyses current trends; the social, economic and political factors which lead to the implementation of workfare; compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness.

Author : Dr. Ramesh Mishra
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412828932
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernizing the Korean Welfare State written by Dr. Ramesh Mishra and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernizing the Korean Welfare State analyzes recent developments in social and public policy in South Korea. Its focus is the new approach to Korea's system of social protection, known as the productive welfare paradigm. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to examine the new paradigm and associated policy developments. In the first part, contributors examine the significance of the productive welfare paradigm and recent policy developments within a broader comparative and international perspective. They question the commitment to welfare in the paradigm, viewing it largely as an example of a global trend towards the "enabling state" in which social welfare serves largely economic goals. Other contributors situate the new paradigm in relation to globalization and its implications for national strategies of social protection developed in earlier times. The new departure in Korea is compared to European welfare state development, and contributors find it a bold attempt to fashion a comprehensive welfare state based on social rights. In the second part, contributors focus on specific issues and policy areas. These include the degree to which Korea has been following a "pro-poor" growth policy. They evaluate developments in the area of unemployment and work injury insurance. They review the progress of policies in the area of social insurance and assistance, and the American system of income support for low income earners and its lessons for Korean policymakers. Other contributors review the public pensions system in Korea, and environmental protection policies are discussed and the impact of those policies on the poor and people of color, who are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards. Ramesh Mishra is emeritus professor of social policy at the School of Social Work, York University, Toronto. Stein Kuhnle is professor in comparative politics and head of the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Services and Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Comparative Study of Family Welfare and Poverty Research. Kyungbae Chung is former president of the Korean Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA).

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264177396
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys: Korea 2000 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2000 edition of OECD"s periodic review of Korea's economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and includes special features on the tax systems and building a more market-oriented economy.

Author : Stein Ringen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199875936
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean State and Social Policy written by Stein Ringen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable democratic polity? South Korea was long ruled with harsh authoritarianism, but, strangely, the authoritarian rulers made energetic use of social policy. The Korean State and Social Policy observes South Korean public policy from 1945 to 2000 through the prism of social policy to examine how the rulers operated and worked. After the military coup in 1961, the new leaders used social policy to buy themselves legitimacy. That enabled them to rule in two very different ways simultaneously. In their determination to hold on to power they were without mercy, but in the use of power in governance, their strategy was to co-opt and mobilize with a sophistication that is wholly exceptional among authoritarian rulers. It is governance and not power that explains the Korean miracle. Mobilization is a strategy with consequences. South Korea was not only led to economic development but also, inadvertently perhaps, built up as a society rich in public and civil institutions. When authoritarianism collapsed under the force of nationwide uprisings in 1987, the institutions of a reasonably pluralistic social and political order were there, alive and well, and democracy could take over without further serious drama. This book is about many things: development and modernization, dictatorship and democracy, state capacity and governance, social protection and welfare states, and Korean history. But finally it is about lifting social policy analysis out of the ghetto of self-sufficiency it is often confined to and into the center ground of hard political science.