Basic Income in Japan [electronic resource] : Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State /
Vanderborght, Y.editor.
Yamamori, T.editor.
Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald Dore. Drawing on empirical data on poverty and inequality as well as normative arguments, this balanced approach to a radical idea is essential reading for the study of contemporary Japan.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword: Basic Income and Japan; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Income Security and the "Right to Subsistence" in Japan*; Section I Basic Income and the Welfare State: Past and Future; CHAPTER 2 A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State; CHAPTER 3 Transforming Japan's Bismarckian Welfare State: Basic Income versus Inclusive Social Insurance; CHAPTER 4 Is There a Future for a Universal Cash Benefit in Japan? ; CHAPTER 5 The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Basic Income*
CHAPTER 6 The Future of the Public Assistance Reform in Japan: Workfare versus Basic Income?CHAPTER 7 Beyond the Three Selection Principles of Welfare Policy (Work, Family, and Belonging):; Section II Basic Income and the Labor Market: Deconstructing the Boundaries?; CHAPTER 8 The Impact of Basic Income on the Gendered Division of Paid Care Work*; CHAPTER 9 Basic Income and Unpaid Care Work in Japan; CHAPTER 10 Beyond the Paradigm of Labor: Everyday Activism and Unconditional Basic Income in Urban Japan; CHAPTER 11 The Tensions between Multiculturalism and Basic Income in Japan
Section III Realizing Basic Income: The Potential of a Radical ReformCHAPTER 12 What Do People Think about Basic Income in Japan?; CHAPTER 13 What Needs to Be Considered When Introducing a New Welfare System: Who Supports Basic Income in Japan?; CHAPTER 14 The Financial Feasibility of Basic Income and the Idea of a Refundable Tax Credit in Japan; CHAPTER 15 The Potential of Introducing Basic Income for the "New Public" in Japan: A Road to the Associational Welfare State?; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Basic Income in Japan is the first collective volume in English entirely devoted to the discussion of Japan's potential for a basic income program in the context of the country's changing welfare state. Vanderborght and Yamamori bring together over a dozen contributors to provide a general overview of the scholarly debate on universal and unconditional basic income, including a foreword by Ronald Dore. Drawing on empirical data on poverty and inequality as well as normative arguments, this balanced approach to a radical idea is essential reading for the study of contemporary Japan.
Development economics.
Labor economics.
Public finance.
Economic theory.
Welfare economics.
Welfare state.
Development Economics.
Labor Economics.
Public Economics.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.
Politics of the Welfare State.