Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany : a Comparison

Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany : a Comparison / edited by Florian Coulmas, Ralph Lützeler.

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 internatio...

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Other Authors: Coulmas, Florian, Lützeler, Ralph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:International comparative social studies ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Demographic transition > Japan.
Demographic transition > Germany.
Population aging > Japan.
Population aging > Germany.
Older people.
elderly.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Older people
Demographic transition
Population
Population aging
Bevolkingsdaling.
Sociaal-economische aspecten.
Japan > Population.
Germany > Population.
Germany
Japan
Japan.
Duitsland.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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