Social inequality in Japan

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Title
"Social inequality in Japan"
Statement of Responsibility
Sawako Shirahase
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2014
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Summary: "Japan was the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society, and throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, was viewed as an "all-middle-class society". However since the 1990s there have been growing doubts as to the real degree of social equality in Japan, particularly in the context of dramatic demographic shifts as the population ages whilst fertility levels continue to fall. This book compares Japan with America, Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Taiwan in order to determine whether inequality really is a social problem in Japan. With a focus on impact demographic shifts, Sawako Shirahase examines female labour market participation, income inequality among households with children, the state of the family, generational change, single person households and income distribution among the aged, and asks whether increasing inequality and is uniquely Japanese, or if it is a social problem common across all of the societies included in this study."--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-218) and index

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