Ageing and the Labor Market in Japan: Problems and PoliciesKoichi Hamada, Hiromi Kat This book is a concerted attempt by economists to investigate and offer remedies for some of the difficulties associated with an ageing labor market. |
Contents
1 Ageing and employment in Japan | 1 |
empirical study of labor supply of the elderly and females | 24 |
3 Labor force ageing and economic growth in Japan | 57 |
4 Ageing and elderly care in an open economy | 75 |
5 Immigration vs foreign investment to ease the ageing problems of an ageing open economy | 91 |
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adjusting ageing population ageing problems Asian assume autarky behavior capital deepening capital flows capital–labor ratio cent chapter companies consumption decline decrease demographic dependency ratio dynamic inefficiency early retirement earnings East Asia economic growth effect efficiency unit elderly elderly care employees equation equilibrium ESRI estimate factor family-friendly systems female labor fertility rate Figure foreign investment Genda Goto growth rate higher host country household human capital husband immigration increase Japan Japanese economy labor force labor market labor participation labor shortage labor supply likelihood function ment migrant workers million Nash equilibrium OECD OECD countries older workers ordered probit parameter parasite singles pension period probit probit models production function ratio in efficiency Raut sample savings rate sector simulation social security systems spouses Stackelberg support ratio Table tion trade barriers trade liberalization utility function values wage rate welfare workplace young workers
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Page ii - Japan In April 2000 the Japanese government launched a series of comprehensive, interdisciplinary and international research projects called 'the Millennium Projects' and as part of this initiative the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) of the Cabinet Office of Japan initiated a two year project entitled 'A Study on Sustainable Economic and Social Structures in the 21st Century', which focuses on ageing and environmental problems in the Japanese and international context. The ESRI Studies...