Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany : A Comparison

Japan and Germany are at the vanguard of a new population dynamics in developed countries: population decline in the absence of war, famine and pandemics. This book presents an in-depth overview of the social and economic implications of this development.

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Year of publication:	2011 ; 1st ed.
Authors:	Coulmas, Florian
Other Persons:	Lützeler, Ralph (contributor)
Publisher:	Leiden : BRILL
Subject:	Japan \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Fertilität \| Fertility \| Bevölkerungsentwicklung \| Demographic development \| Alternde Bevölkerung \| Aging population \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change \| Soziale Folgen \| Social impact
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	1 online resource (569 pages)
Series:	International Comparative Social Studies ; v.25
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables and Figures; Population Implosion: Coping with the Unknown; PART 1 SOCIETIES OF POPULATION DECLINE; Confronting the Demographic Trilemma of Low Fertility, Ageing and Depopulation; Europe's Demographic Future; Flexible Employment, Flexible Families, and the Socialization of Reproduction; Economic Globalization and Changes in Family Formation as the Cause of Very Low Fertility in Japan Income Inequality in a Rapidly Ageing Society, Japan: Focusing on Transformations in the Structure of Households with ElderlyAgeing Societies: Present Challenges and Models for the Future; PART II FERTILITY DECLINE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS; Japanese Family Policies in Comparative Perspective; Promoting Gender Equality, Birthrates, or Human Capital? Germany, Japan and Family Policy Discourse; Child Care and Work-Life Balance in Low-Fertility Japan; Actors of Social Policy Making in Japan: A Look at the Individual Level Growing Up in a Shrinking City: The Impact of Residential Segregation on the Qualitative Reproduction of Urban SocietyPART III CHANLLENGES AND CHANCES OF AGEING; Business Implications of Demographic Change in Japan: Chances and Challenges for Human Resource and Marketing Management; Silver Employment in Germany: Trends and Consequences for the Management of an Ageing Workforce; New Housing Options for the Elderly in Japan: The Example of Tokyo's Edogawa Ward; The Political Economy of Health-Care Migration: A Japanese Perspective Care for the Elderly and Demographic Change: Ageing and Migrant Nurses in the German State of North Rhine-WestphaliaThe Power of Address: Age and Gender in Japanese Eldercare Communication; Japan's Adult Guardianship System: Statutory Guardianship and VOLUNTEER Guardians; Japan's Adult Guardianship Law: Current Status and Issues; PART IV REGIONAL ASPECTS OF AGEING AND DEPOPULATION; Demographic Change and Challenges from a Regional Perspective: The Case of Germany; Recent In-Migration to Peripheral Regions of Japan in the Context of Incipient National Population Decline Rural Depopulation and Economic Shrinkage in Japan: What Can Affected Municipalities Do About It?Demographic, Economic and Institutional Shrinkage - From the Perspective of Rural Areas in Germany; Left Behind in the Global City: Spaces and Places of Ageing and Shrinking in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area; References; Index of Authors Cited; Index of Subjects
ISBN:	978-90-04-19484-7 ; 978-90-04-18778-8 ; 978-90-04-18778-8
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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