Elder poverty in South Korea

With a fond interest in international development and social economics, the student will undertake an international collaboration to tackle the trending issue of elderly poverty in South Korea. Indeed, South Korea has known a prominent growth since the war but at the expense of the marginalized group of elderly. South Korea now has the greatest relative rate of poverty of elderly among the OECD countries. Thus, this project will attempt to understand how fast economic growth and possibly other exogenous economic factors impact unproductive groups such as the elderly. This will be done with the support of Sang-Ho Nam, PhD. An expert in CGE modeling and income distribution who teaches at Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology and works at Korea Institute for Health & Social Affairs. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Luca Tiberti

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Partner:

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Discipline:

Sociology

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University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award