ISBN:
9789004187788
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9004187782
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9789004194847
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9004194843
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1283160838
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9781283160834
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxiv, 545 pages)
,
illustrations, maps.
Series Statement:
International comparative social studies 1568-4474 v. 25
Series Statement:
International comparative social studies v. 25
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Imploding populations in Japan and Germany
DDC:
304.620943
Keywords:
Demographic transition Japan
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Demographic transition Germany
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Population aging Japan
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Population aging Germany
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Demographic transition
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Demographic transition
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Population aging
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Population aging
;
Demography
;
trends
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Germany
;
Demography
;
trends
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Japan
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Aged
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Germany
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Aged
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Japan
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Family Relations
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Germany
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Family Relations
;
Japan
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Public Policy
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Germany
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Public Policy
;
Japan
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Germany
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Japan
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Aged
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Family Relations
;
Public Policy
;
Socioeconomic Factors
;
Demography trends
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Social Science
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Business
;
Demographic transition
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Population aging
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Bevolkingsdaling
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Population
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Sociaal-economische aspecten
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography
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Japan Population
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Germany Population
;
Germany
;
Japan
;
Japan
;
Duitsland
;
Germany Population
;
Japan Population
;
Germany
;
Japan
;
Germany
;
Japan
;
Japan
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Duitsland
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Abstract:
Population implosion : coping with the unknown / Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler -- Confronting the demographic trilemma of low fertility, ageing, and depopulation / Shigemi Kono -- Europe's demographic future / Reiner Klingholz -- Flexible employment, flexible families, and the socialization of reproduction / Wolfgang Streeck -- Economic globalization and changes in family formation as the cause of very low fertility in Japan / Shigesato Takahashi -- Income inequality in a rapidly ageing society, Japan : focusing on transformations in the structure of households with elderly / Sawako Shirahase -- Ageing societies : present challenges and models for the future / Gertrud M. Backes -- Japanese family policies in comparative perspective / Makoto Atoh -- Promoting gender equality, birthrates or human capital? Germany, Japan, and family policy discourse / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Tuukka Toivonen -- Child care and work-life balance in low fertility Japan / Barbara G. Holthus -- Actors of social policy making in Japan : a look at the individual level / Axel Klein -- Growing up in a shrinking city : the impact of residential segregation on the qualitative reproduction of urban society / Klaus Peter Strohmeier -- Business implications of demographic change in Japan : chances and challenges for human resource and marketing management / Florian Kohlbacher.
Abstract:
Silver employment in Germany : trends and consequences for the management of an ageing workforce / Christiane Hipp and Birgit Verworn -- New housing options for the elderly in Japan : the example of Tokyo's Edogawa Ward / Maren Godzik -- The political economy of health-care migration : a Japanese perspective / Gabriele Vogt -- Care for the elderly and demographic change : ageing and migrant nurses in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia / Jens Friebe -- The power of address : age and gender in Japanese eldercare communication / Peter Backhaus -- Japan's adult guardianship system : statutory guardianship and civil guardians / Junko Ando -- Japan's adult guardianship law : current status and issues / Makoto Arai -- Demographic change and challenges from a regional perspective : the case of Germany / Franz-Josef Kemper -- Recent in-migration to peripheral regions of Japan in the context of incipient national population decline / Yoshitaka Ishikawa -- Rural depopulation and economic shrinkage in Japan : what can affected municipalities do about it? / Volker Elis -- Demographic, economic, and institutional shrinkage from the perspective of rural areas in Germany / Stephan Beetz -- Left behind in the global city : spaces and places of ageing and shrinking in the Tokyo metropolitan area / Ralph Lutzeler.
Abstract:
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of low birth-rates and population decline on Japan and Germany. Experts from both countries examine a broad range of issues, from demographic change, social ageing, family policies, family formation, work-life balance, domestic and international migration to business perspectives and labour market issues. Focussed on Japan and Germany, two highly developed countries with extremely low fertility, the chapters of this volume also refer to several other countries for comparison. In the absence of war, famine and pandemics, rapid population
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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