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The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with advantages in employment and social security. The paper contains a brief history of the concept and its operational definition. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe,...
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Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial …
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This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … marginal occupational groups; (iii) Japan's ageing problem is compounded by the weakening of the family as a provider of … welfare, which will put an extra burden on her welfare state; (iv) Japan and Korea's enterprises are challenged in their chief …
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This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …
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ILO pub. Article commenting on modification of labour legislation in Japan to conform with ILO Conventions on wages …
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ILO pub. Article formulating a demographic economic model to determine the economic implications of Japan's ageing …
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In this paper, the author first briefly discuss the structure of Japan's public pension system, the history of that …, possible ways of alleviating those defects, future prospects for Japan's public pension system in the face of rapid population … aging, and proposals for reforming Japan's public pension system. …
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This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126601
1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society 2 … reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake 5) To maintain confidence of the bond market, maintaining Overall Expenditure …). [Ministry of Finance, Japan]. URL:[http://www.mof.go.jp/english/budget/budget/fy2012/e20111224a.pdf]. …
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