Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Impoverishment Among Elderly Women in Japan

The increasing poverty rate for elderly women is a growing concern in Japan and is generally due to their lifestyle changes and the public pension system based on the pre-1980s (old) lifestyle. At that time, women were expected to get married and become homemakers. Therefore, the public pension syst...

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Main Author: Seiichi Inagaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2018.00022/full