독거노인의 상대적 빈곤함에 대한 분석: 이혼, 사별, 분가에 대한 분석을 중심으로

The paper analyzes whether the old living alone are poorer than the other elderly using KLIPS(Korean Labor&Income Panel Study) data. Becoming the old living alone is possible after ①being bereaved and ②choosing to live apart from other household members. So, ① and ② are the subject of the analyses. ①The first analysis uses Difference-in-Difference and Propensity Score Matching, estimates the influence of divorce and bereavement, and reaches a conclusion that divorce and bereavement do not significantly affect on the household income. The analysis also uses Survival Analysis to assess on the traits of the group who experience divorce and bereavement more frequently, and reaches a result that as household income increases by 1%, the probability of the bereavement decreases by 27% and the probability of divorce decreases by 45%. ②By using survival analysis, the second analysis estimates the traits of the people who choose to live alone and who choose to live apart from other family members. When the subject group is limited to bereaved older adults, the probability of living alone decreases by 21% as income increases by 1%. In an additional cross-section analysis, the old living alone show lower health level and higher working participation rate. In case of experiencing ①, ② and becoming the old living alone, thus, older adults are practically poorer than other elderly people.