Inequality and National Pension Issues in Japan

Ichiro Sasaki
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Ichiro Sasaki: Associate Professor, Doshisha University

Public Policy Review, 2010, vol. 6, issue 1, 55-80

Abstract: Currently, young people's non-payment of the national pension fees has been becoming a serious social problem in Japan. How could we solve such a problem? The purpose of this paper is to investigate unknown factors that would influence young people's non-payment of the national pension fees. We found from the questionnaire surveys that the young people's national pension delinquencies were related to the inequality of opportunities of receiving parental advice. Those who have such an opportunity tended to pay the fees as required. Parental advice is the unknown factor that encourages the young people to pay it. Therefore, when investigating the young people's behavior of payment, we have to focus not only on the factors, such as widening economic inequality and distrust in the national pension system, but also on the inequality in parental aspects.

Date: 2010
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