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An Analysis on the Regional Convergence of Social Welfare Services in Korea

우리나라 사회복지서비스의 지역 간 수렴 분석

  • Received : 2016.07.01
  • Accepted : 2016.08.16
  • Published : 2016.08.31
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Abstract

This paper analyzes whether social welfare services converge across the regions. We tested whether local social welfare services converge considering the congestion rate of local social welfare services during the 1985-2013 periods in Korea, using the sixteen higher level local governments panel data. The main findings are as follows. First, the absolute level of local social welfare services converge so that the -convergence exists. Second, the growth rate of local social welfare services increases as the intial level of local social welfare services is lower so that there exists -convergence. The policy implications of our findings are as follows. The local government had better consider the presence of local social welfare services in policy decision making. Also, fundamentally the social welfare policies had better be executed by the central government rather than local governments, since the national minimum welfare must be provided.

본 논문은 우리나라 사회복지서비스가 지역 간 수렴하고 있는지를 분석하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사회복지서비스가 지방공공재로서 어느 정도의 혼잡도를 갖는 것을 고려하여 1985-2013년 기간 동안 우리나라의 지역간 수렴을 분석한 결과 절대적인 사회복지서비스가 수렴하는 것이 실증적으로 입증되어 -수렴이 존재하는 것으로 드러났다. 또한 초기연도에 사회복지서비스의 수준에 반비례하여 사회복지서비스의 증가율이 결정되어 지역 간 사회복지서비스가 수렴하는 소위 -수렴이 존재하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 논문의 정책적 시사점으로는 첫째 지자체가 사회복지정책을 수행할 때 사회복지서비스의 혼잡도를 고려하여야 한다는 것이다. 둘째, 사회복지정책은 지방정부에서 차별적으로 수행하는 것보다는 국가전체의 관점에서 최소한의 복지서비스를 제공하는 것이 바람직하다는 것이다.

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