Imploding populations in Japan and Germany : a comparison /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 545 p.) : ill., maps. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; v. 25 International comparative social studies ; v. 25. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8928368 |
Table of Contents:
- Population implosion : coping with the unknown / Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler
- Confronting the demographic trilemma of low fertility, ageing, and depopulation / Shigemi Kono
- Europe's demographic future / Reiner Klingholz
- Flexible employment, flexible families, and the socialization of reproduction / Wolfgang Streeck
- Economic globalization and changes in family formation as the cause of very low fertility in Japan / Shigesato Takahashi
- Income inequality in a rapidly ageing society, Japan : focusing on transformations in the structure of households with elderly / Sawako Shirahase
- Ageing societies : present challenges and models for the future / Gertrud M. Backes
- Japanese family policies in comparative perspective / Makoto Atoh
- Promoting gender equality, birthrates or human capital? Germany, Japan, and family policy discourse / Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Tuukka Toivonen
- Child care and work-life balance in low fertility Japan / Barbara G. Holthus
- Actors of social policy making in Japan : a look at the individual level / Axel Klein
- Growing up in a shrinking city : the impact of residential segregation on the qualitative reproduction of urban society / Klaus Peter Strohmeier
- Business implications of demographic change in Japan : chances and challenges for human resource and marketing management / Florian Kohlbacher
- Silver employment in Germany : trends and consequences for the management of an ageing workforce / Christiane Hipp and Birgit Verworn
- New housing options for the elderly in Japan : the example of Tokyo's Edogawa Ward / Maren Godzik
- The political economy of health-care migration : a Japanese perspective / Gabriele Vogt
- Care for the elderly and demographic change : ageing and migrant nurses in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia / Jens Friebe
- The power of address : age and gender in Japanese eldercare communication / Peter Backhaus
- Japan's adult guardianship system : statutory guardianship and civil guardians / Junko Ando
- Japan's adult guardianship law : current status and issues / Makoto Arai
- Demographic change and challenges from a regional perspective : the case of Germany / Franz-Josef Kemper
- Recent in-migration to peripheral regions of Japan in the context of incipient national population decline / Yoshitaka Ishikawa
- Rural depopulation and economic shrinkage in Japan : what can affected municipalities do about it? / Volker Elis
- Demographic, economic, and institutional shrinkage from the perspective of rural areas in Germany / Stephan Beetz
- Left behind in the global city : spaces and places of ageing and shrinking in the Tokyo metropolitan area / Ralph Lutzeler.