, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …

, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …

Germany and Japan. Applying an ordered logit model to individual data from representative public opinion surveys, it is … inclination towards a government-based pension system in the case of Japan but positively in Germany. Other significant influences … are the pensioner status of the respondents in Japan and their political position in the case of German data. …

of the elderly in Japan. Using four waves of individual-level annual data from the Japanese General Social Survey … increasingly more consistent in their support for a government-based social security system in Japan. -- Livelihood of elderly … ; care of elderly ; public attitudes ; aging societies ; Japan …

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan’s household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan’s household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …’s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

Japan is in the midst of a demographic transition that is both rapid and large by international standards. As recently … as 1990, Japan had the youngest population among the Group of 6 large, developed countries. However, the combined effects … of aging of the baby boomer generation and low fertility rates have produced very rapid aging. Japan now finds itself …