우리나라 노인의 소득보장정책에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Income Security Policy for Elderly Koreans

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Currently the aging population is rapidly increasing owing to the extension of the average life span, which is a feature in modern industry, caused by the rapid industrialization and urbanization, the development of medical technology and the improvement in dietary habits. The aging of population is a common present state in the industrial society, but its rate of increase in our country is very high in comparison with other countries, as our country has entered 'the aging society' provided in UN, as the rate of people of sixty-five over was 10.7% in the whole population in 2009.
This Study looking over problems associated with aging and income security policy for elderly Koreans and developing alternative policies from the perspective of preparing against the aging society.
With regard to improving economic situation of elderly Koreans, we need to design programs to elevate older workers' flexibility in labor market participation and various wage subsidy programs for older workers, and develop suitable jobs and systems of job placement for them. employment opportunity should be increased even to the elderly people such as eliminating the unfair opportunities for employment, banning the employment based on the sexual orientation and creating the jobs which are more encouraged for elderly people.
As it has been discussed above, it is certain that we can establish to raise the declining elderly welfare to the levels of advanced countries in the 21st century only when we manage to conduct the system with the substantially strong desire, reconsidering that it is an the urgent and serious problem to all of us and setting a up more positive and effective middle and long－term policies