In July 2015, South Korea’s National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) was reformed for the purposes of eliminating welfare blind spots and reducing poverty. The reform is expected to affect the recipients’ economic behaviours and choices. In this study, we used changes in benefits and eligibility for the NBLSS under the customised benefit system to identify the effects of the change in the NBLSS on a proposed set of economic outcomes – income, labour supply, consumption, savings, poverty reduction. To estimate the effects, we used data from the 10th–12th waves of the Korea Welfare Panel Study and employed a difference‐in‐differences framework integrated with the propensity scores. We found that the NBLSS helps the poor to reduce financial and material hardships through income and consumption increments, but that it does not provide disincentives to the recipients from participating in the labour market or from saving.

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2015年韩国国家基本生活保障体系的福利改革：对经济成果的影响

2015年7月，为了消除福利盲区和减少贫困​​，对韩国的国家基本生活保障系统（NBLSS）进行了改革。预计这项改革将影响受援国的经济行为和选择。在本研究中，我们使用了定制福利制度下的NBLSS福利和资格变更，以识别NBLSS变更对拟议的一系列经济成果（收入，劳动力供给，消费，储蓄，减贫）的影响。为了评估影响，我们使用了来自韩国福利专门小组研究的第10至第12次调查的数据，并采用了差异得分框架和倾向得分。我们发现NBLSS通过增加收入和消费来帮助穷人减少财务和物质困难，