, lastly, I discuss attitudes toward child-rearing policies in the United States, France, Sweden, South Korea, and Japan. In … Japan, a larger extent of income inequality is manifest particularly among households with young children. The poverty rate … among households with young children is higher in Japan than France and Sweden. The need for child-rearing policies in Japan …

The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan's total fertility rate in … relation to the household, we will examine the economic disparities of unmarried adults living with their parents in Japan in ….K., U.S., and Taiwan, compared with Japan. The paper consists of two parts. First, I will examine economic disparities among …

The main purpose of this study is to examine the extent of income inequality in Japan and to speculate on the extent of … Japan's economic inequality in comparative perspective. This study focuses on Japanese income distribution and examines the … analysis are: (1) whether or not Japan's income distribution has become more unequal recently, and (2) whether or not income …

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …