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Inequality Re-examined: Valid Indicator of Impacts of Social Policies of the Welfare States?

Han, Dongwoo 1

1강남대학교 사회복지대학원

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This article tries to answer the following two research questions: What is equalitythat social policies of the welfare state aim for all about?; Have welfare states reducedthe inequality in reality? Socioeconomic equality means the equality in incomedistribution in welfare policies. Regarding the first question, the authorpoints that equality has been often confused between equality of social right andequality as distributive ideal and review how equality principle has been taken intoaccount to the social policies of the welfare states. Regarding the second question, this article analyzes how social welfare states havereduced income inequality empirically. Including South Korea, in almost OECDcountries, while social expenditures have consistently increased during last decades,evidences that income inequality was reduced were hardly found. The authorshows that welfare states are being challenged politically as well as economically inpolicy efficiency. In this article, three critical factors-production capability, intedependence,and power-should be regarded in establishing and implementingsocial policies aiming for the socioeconomic equality.

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