Social Welfare Development in East Asia

Tang, Kwong‐leung

doi:10.1057/9780333985496

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“…Huber (1996: 154-155) examines the social policies of four Latin American cases to conclude that, while Chile introduced an unemployment insurance program in 1937 under democracy, dictatorships in Argentina and Brazil first used these programs to respond to labor militancy and to control the labor movement. Furthermore, dictatorships may have a greater capacity to implement new social policies, as is claimed by advocates of the "strong" state in Taiwan or Korea (Tang 2000).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unemployment Risks and the Origins of Unemployment Compensation

Kim

2010

St Comp Int Dev

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This paper focuses on the distribution of sectoral unemployment risks and the role of political regimes in the foundational moments of unemployment compensation. The institutionalization of unemployment compensation is a function of two factors. First, it depends on the distribution of unemployment risks by economic sectors. Second, the effect of risk inequality is conditional upon the political regime type. I employ event history analysis of 144 countries throughout the world for the long historical period from 1880 to 2000. The results show that an overall societal level of unemployment risk and inequality of sectoral unemployment risks in a society are positively associated with the likelihood of the institutionalization of unemployment compensation. In addition, the effect of risk inequality is much higher under democracy than under dictatorship. A broader implication is that the creation of unemployment compensation is not only a function of homogeneous working class power but also a function of working class conflict that stems from the heterogeneity of unemployment risks among workers.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unemployment Risks and the Origins of Unemployment Compensation

Kim

2010

St Comp Int Dev

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“…For example, a study found that 46.6% of employable recipients did not have the willingness for reemployment (Li 2008, p. 24). One essential feature of the welfare systems of the Chinese societies, including Singapore and Taiwan, are their relatively low social spending and the public hostility towards welfare (Walker and Wong 2005a, b;Mendes 2007;Wijeysingha 2005;Tang 2000). However, the perspective of those affected as revealed by qualitative methodology, are not identified.…”

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“I Wish to be Self-Reliant”: Aspiration for Self-Reliance, Need and Life Satisfaction, and Exit Dilemma of Welfare Recipients in Hong Kong

Wong

Lou

2009

Soc Indic Res

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“…In recent years there has been growing interest in comparing patterns of social and health service development in advanced Asian economies, resulting in several articles and books [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Much of this material concentrates more broadly on a range of core social This article extends the comparative analysis of advanced Asian health systems, considering the cases of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.…”

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confidence: 99%