Imploding populations in Japan and Germany
Subtitle: a comparison
By: edited by Florian Coulmas, Ralph Lützeler
Series: International comparative social studies -- v. 25; International comparative social studies -- v. 25.
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9789004187788
Subjects: Demographic transition; Socioeconomic Factors; Population aging; Trends; Demography; Family Relations; Public Policy; Aged; Population
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Population implosion : coping with the unknown / Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler; title: Confronting the demographic trilemma of low fertility, ageing, and depopulation / Shigemi Kono; title: Europe's demographic future / Reiner Klingholz; title: Flexible employment, flexible families, and the socialization of reproduction / Wolfgang Streeck; title: Economic globalization and changes in family formation as the cause of very low fertility in Japan / Shigesato Takahashi; title: Income inequality in a rapidly ageing society, Japan : focusing on transformations in the structure of households with elderly / Sawako Shirahase; title: Ageing societies : present challenges and models for the future / Gertrud M. Backes; title: Japanese family policies in comparative perspective / Makoto Atoh; title: Promoting gender equality, birthrates or human capital? Germany, Japan, and family policy discourse / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Tuukka Toivonen; title: Child care and work-life balance in low fertility Japan / Barbara G. Holthus; title: Actors of social policy making in Japan : a look at the individual level / Axel Klein; title: Growing up in a shrinking city : the impact of residential segregation on the qualitative reproduction of urban society / Klaus Peter Strohmeier; title: Business implications of demographic change in Japan : chances and challenges for human resource and marketing management / Florian Kohlbacher; title: Silver employment in Germany : trends and consequences for the management of an ageing workforce / Christiane Hipp and Birgit Verworn; title: New housing options for the elderly in Japan : the example of Tokyo's Edogawa Ward / Maren Godzik; title: The political economy of health-care migration : a Japanese perspective / Gabriele Vogt; title: Care for the elderly and demographic change : ageing and migrant nurses in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia / Jens Friebe; title: The power of address : age and gender in Japanese eldercare communication / Peter Backhaus; title: Japan's adult guardianship system : statutory guardianship and civil guardians / Junko Ando; title: Japan's adult guardianship law : current status and issues / Makoto Arai; title: Demographic change and challenges from a regional perspective : the case of Germany / Franz-Josef Kemper; title: Recent in-migration to peripheral regions of Japan in the context of incipient national population decline / Yoshitaka Ishikawa; title: Rural depopulation and economic shrinkage in Japan : what can affected municipalities do about it? / Volker Elis; title: Demographic, economic, and institutional shrinkage from the perspective of rural areas in Germany / Stephan Beetz; title: Left behind in the global city : spaces and places of ageing and shrinking in the Tokyo metropolitan area / Ralph Lutzeler.