TY - CHAP
T1 - A Social Investment Turn in East Asia?
T2 - South Korea in Comparative Perspective
AU - Lee, Soo Hyun
AU - Fleckenstein, Timo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The welfare states of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan were built by conservative elites to serve the project of late industrialization, and for this reason the East Asian developmental welfare state focused its resources on those who were deemed most important for economic development (especially male industrial workers). Starting in the 1990s and increasingly since the 2000s, the developmental welfare state has experienced a far-reaching transformation, including the expansion of family policy to address the post-industrial challenges of female employment participation and low fertility. This chapter assesses social investment policies in East Asia, with a focus on family policy and on the South Korean case, where the most comprehensive rise of social investment policies were observed.
AB - The welfare states of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan were built by conservative elites to serve the project of late industrialization, and for this reason the East Asian developmental welfare state focused its resources on those who were deemed most important for economic development (especially male industrial workers). Starting in the 1990s and increasingly since the 2000s, the developmental welfare state has experienced a far-reaching transformation, including the expansion of family policy to address the post-industrial challenges of female employment participation and low fertility. This chapter assesses social investment policies in East Asia, with a focus on family policy and on the South Korean case, where the most comprehensive rise of social investment policies were observed.
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198790488.003.0024
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198790488.003.0024
M3 - Chapter
BT - The Uses of Social Investment
A2 - Hemerijck, Anton
ER -
