Social Security In Japan

Author : Toshiaki Tachibanaki
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822033454067

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The Economics of Social Security in Japan by Toshiaki Tachibanaki Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession has led to an urgent reappraisal of this situation. The book begins by examining the social security system in Japan as a whole, before focusing on specific issues. These include public and occupational pensions, medical care and childcare, and the availability and accessibility of social infrastructure for the old and handicapped. In each case, the distinguished authors address the unique problems associated with Japan and propose practical policy recommendations for social security reform. The book also discusses the future path of Japanese welfare transition and explores the advantages and disadvantages of the private sector model for welfare provision compared to the public sector model. The expert contributors, including both Japanese and international specialists, provide a critical evaluation of social security reform in Japan, set against the background of future demographic and economic trends. This book will appeal to all scholars of public policy, welfare policy and public finance. It will also be of interest to anyone working on the merits and demerits of different social security systems.

Author : Mari Osawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136701689

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Social Security in Contemporary Japan by Mari Osawa Pdf

The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan in international comparison from a historical and gender perspective. It posits ‘livelihood security systems’ rather than ‘welfare states’ or ‘welfare regimes’ as its object of analysis to enter the role of non-governmental institutions and of governmental policies reaching beyond income transfers into vision. Based on rich statistical materials, the evolution of Japan’s livelihood security system in recent decades is traced to reveal a rigid male breadwinner orientation increasingly out of step with social realities. The need for remedying the gender bias built into Japan’s social insurance schemes has been politically highlighted since the late 1990s, but legislative action has continued to be deferred. The author argues that at present the livelihood security system of Japan is not only dysfunctional, but actually functioning in reverse, in a sense of furthering social exclusion. The study concludes with suggestions for a possible reconstruction of Japan’s social security system, arguing for an increased role of the ‘third sector’ or ‘social economy’ in livelihood security and care provision. This book will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in social policy, welfare economics and gender studies, as well as Japanese politics and society.

Author : David E. Woodsworth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773594104

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Social Security and National Policy by David E. Woodsworth Pdf

Author : Antonio Sagrista Freixas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Japan
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002288540

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Social Security in Japan by Antonio Sagrista Freixas Pdf

Author : Mari Osawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136701696

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Social Security in Contemporary Japan by Mari Osawa Pdf

The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan in international comparison from a historical and gender perspective. It posits ‘livelihood security systems’ rather than ‘welfare states’ or ‘welfare regimes’ as its object of analysis to enter the role of non-governmental institutions and of governmental policies reaching beyond income transfers into vision. Based on rich statistical materials, the evolution of Japan’s livelihood security system in recent decades is traced to reveal a rigid male breadwinner orientation increasingly out of step with social realities. The need for remedying the gender bias built into Japan’s social insurance schemes has been politically highlighted since the late 1990s, but legislative action has continued to be deferred. The author argues that at present the livelihood security system of Japan is not only dysfunctional, but actually functioning in reverse, in a sense of furthering social exclusion. The study concludes with suggestions for a possible reconstruction of Japan’s social security system, arguing for an increased role of the ‘third sector’ or ‘social economy’ in livelihood security and care provision. This book will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in social policy, welfare economics and gender studies, as well as Japanese politics and society.

Author : Tetsuya Hosaka,Yasuhiko Yamazaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Insurance, Health
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034199237

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Social Security in Japan by Tetsuya Hosaka,Yasuhiko Yamazaki Pdf

Author : Takashi Oshio,Naohiro Yashiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Retirement
ISBN : UOM:39015041237085

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Social Security and Retirement in Japan by Takashi Oshio,Naohiro Yashiro Pdf

We provide the incentive mechanism of the public pension on the retirement decisions made in the Japanese labor market. Though the labor market participation of Japanese older persons is quite high by international standards, a principle incentive mechanism of the public pension system in Japan affecting the retirement behavior has many things in common with those in other OECD countries. The pension benefits are designed actuarially unfair,' and the decision to work beyond age 60 is penalized. As the population ages quite rapidly, it is wasteful to maintain the disincentive mechanism arising from the actuarially unfair pension scheme for older persons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social security
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020943648

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The Cost of Social Security in Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Insurance
ISBN : OCLC:1436192881

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The Outline of Social Security in Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822007988553

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Retirement Systems in Japan by Robert Louis Clark Pdf

From the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School

Author : Hitoshi Miyazawa,Teruo Hatakeyama
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813344730

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Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society by Hitoshi Miyazawa,Teruo Hatakeyama Pdf

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan, and (III) A Prospect of Community-Based Inclusive Society in Japan. The chapters in this book were composed on the basis of research into community-based integrated care systems and community-based inclusive society, conducted by members of the Association of Japanese Geographers’ Study Group “Regional Issues Related to the Birthrate Decline and Population Aging.” Choosing local governments with different regional characteristics, the authors conducted empirical research to uncover the characteristics of comprehensive community support systems, building processes, and challenges in the respective local governments. Non-Japanese readers will acquire an understanding of the characteristics of social security and the trends of the reforms in Japan. To support its use as a reference book, chapters in Part I include numerous maps and figures with the themes of welfare, medical care, and health levels in Japan.

Author : Axel Börsch-Supan,Courtney C. Coile
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226674247

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World by Axel Börsch-Supan,Courtney C. Coile Pdf

This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of public pension reform on employment at older ages. In the past two decades, men’s labor force participation at older ages has increased, reversing a long-term pattern of decline; participation rates for older women have increased dramatically as well. While better health, more education, and changes in labor-supply behavior of married couples may have affected this trend, these factors alone cannot explain the magnitude of the employment increase or its large variation across countries. The studies in this volume explore how financial incentives to work at older ages have evolved as a result of public pension reforms since 1980 and how these changes have affected retirement behavior. Utilizing a common template to analyze the developments across countries, the findings suggest that social security reforms have strengthened the financial returns to working at older ages and that these enhanced financial incentives have contributed to the rise in late-life employment.

Author : Yoshimi Adachi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811071768

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The Economics of Tax and Social Security in Japan by Yoshimi Adachi Pdf

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the incorrect assumptions about the elasticities of demand and pattern of tax and health insurance. Most countries feel constant pressure because expenditure is increasing and resources are scarce. The topics addressed in this book including several frameworks leading to over-insurance, excess demand for medical care, and rapid expenditure growth in the medical care sector. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by extensive data analyses, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the ever-expanding theoretical and quantitative fields of containing costs, increasing funding for health services, or both.

Author : John Creighton Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400862955

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How Policies Change by John Creighton Campbell Pdf

Japan is aging rapidly, and its government has been groping with the implications of this profound social change. In a pioneering study of postwar Japanese social policy, John Creighton Campbell traces the growth from small beginnings to an elaborate and expensive set of pension, health care, employment, and social service programs for older people. He argues that an understanding of policy change requires a careful disentangling of social problems and how they come to be perceived, the invention (or borrowing) of policy solutions, and conflicts and coalitions among bureaucrats, politicians, interest groups, and the general public. The key to policy change has often been the strategies adopted by policy entrepreneurs to generate or channel political energy. To make sense of all these complex processes, the author employs a new theory of four "modes" of decision-making--cognitive, political, artifactual, and inertial. Campbell refutes the claim that there is a unique "Japanese-style welfare state." Despite the big differences in cultural values, social arrangements, economic priorities, and political control, government responsibility for the "aging-society problem" is broadly similar to that in advanced Western nations. However, Campbell's account of how Japan has taken on that responsibility raises new issues for our understanding of both Japanese politics and theories of the welfare state. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007595601

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Outline of Social Insurance in Japan by Anonim Pdf