• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Ageing and the labor market in Japan : problems and policies
  • Contributor: Hamada, Kōichi [Other]; Katō, Hiromi [Other]
  • Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • imprint: Cheltenham; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, c2007
  • Published in: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    ESRI studies series on ageing
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 191 p); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4337/9781847204240
  • ISBN: 9781847204240
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: QV 222 : Altersstruktur der Arbeitnehmerschaft
    QG 870 : Japan, Korea
  • Keywords: Japan > Älterer Mensch > Alter > Arbeitsmarkt > Beschäftigung
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: 1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor supply of the elderly and females -- 3. Labor force ageing and economic growth in Japan -- 4. Ageing and elderly care in an open economy -- 5. Immigration vs. foreign investment to ease the ageing problems of an ageing open economy -- 6. Ageing society and the choice of Japan : migration, FDI and trade liberalization -- 7. Retirement in non-cooperative and cooperative families.

    This book is a concerted attempt by economists to investigate and offer remedies for some of the difficulties associated with an ageing labor market