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Book SynopsisDemographic changes (dropping birth rates, decline in population growth and rapid population aging), their economic implications, and possible policy responses are the subject matter of this volume. It draws on international experience to address these issues, but focuses on the experience of Japan, the country with the world's oldest population.
Table of Contents1. Introduction Andrew Mason and Mitoshi Yamaguchi 2. Evolution of Recent Economic-Demographic Modeling: A Synthesis Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt 3. A Century of Demographic Change and Economic Growth: The Asian Experience in Regional and Temporal Perspective Allen C. Kelley and Robert M. Schmidt 4. Demographic Dividends: The Past, the Present, and the Future Andrew Mason 5. Demographic Change and Regional Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and China Tomoko Kinugasa, Wei Huang, and Mitoshi Yamaguchi 6. Job Opportunities for Older Workers: When Are Jobs Filled with External Hires? Robert Hutchens 7. Skills, Wages, and the Employment of Older Workers Naoki Mitani 8. Work-Life Balance Measures and Gender Division of Labor Akira Kawaguchi 9. Optimal Education Policies under an Equity-Efficiency Trade-off Takashi Oshio 10. Why Are Japanese Refusing to Pay the National Pension Tax?: A Simultaneous Equation Analysis Mitoshi Yamaguchi and Noriko Aoki The Authors
