This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia. For the future, the focus should be on Japan, which can provide "common knowledge" as a public good. The book collects the results of researchers in Japan, China, South Korea, and Indonesia on declining...

Peak-Konsum -- Die Auswirkungen von Bevölkerungsschrumpfung und -alterung auf das Rentenversicherungssystem in Deutschland -- Was taugen die Vorhersagen? Regionale Unterschiede in der demografischen Entwicklung, Ursachen und Zukunftsprognosen -- Die Generationenökonomie -- Auswirkungen des...

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local - labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together with...

1. Conceptualisations and Measurement -- 2. Theories and Empirical Findings -- 3. Happiness and Policy -- 4. Inequality -- 5. Poverty, Deprivation and Social Class -- 6. Some Questions of Intergenerational Economics -- 7. Ageing, House Prices, and Economic Crises -- 8. Behavioural Economics and...

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in economics, health...