Social inequality in post-growth Japan

transformation during economic and demographic stagnation

"In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, economically sucessful nation regarded as a prime example of social equality and inclusion, to a nation with a stagnating economy, a shrinking population and a very high proportion of elderly people. Within this, new forms of inequality are emerging and deepening, and a new model of Japan as a 'gap society' (kakusa shakai) has become widely accepted. These new forms of inequality are complex, are caused in different ways by a variety of...

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Engels | 304 pagina's | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, New York | 2017

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Examining Japan's lost decades

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Engels | 338 pagina's | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Grup, London | 2015

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