Lee, Grace H.Y.; Lee, Sing Ping - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 32 (2014) C, pp. 71-85
This paper seeks to address the problems of childcare scarcity, declining fertility rates and work-family conflict faced by the growing female labor force in Japan. Japan’s total fertility rate has been declining since the 1970s and it fell below the replacement level of 1.3 in 2003. Since the...