East Asian social policy towards the challenges of of an aging society
The paper aims to describe how aging society has influenced social policy in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. It analyses a change in demographic structure of Asian societies as well it presents the history of the development of social policy in East Asia. The last section of the paper sho...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/foe/article/view/376 |
| Summary: | The paper aims to describe how aging society has influenced social policy in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. It analyses a change in demographic structure of Asian societies as well it presents the history of the development of social policy in East Asia. The last section of the paper shows how much the change in demographic structure has been influencing the conservative welfare state characteristic of the East Asian countries. |
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| ISSN: | 0208-6018 2353-7663 |