The Problems of Declining Birth Rate and Aging in the Japanese Welfare State and Its Implications for Business and Economic Ethics

Koichi Matsuoka

Chapter Chapter 17 in Developing Business Ethics in China, 2006, pp 184-194 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economic development produces positive values and, at the same time, causes negative effects. This pattern in the Japanese society is characterized by two dominant trends: (1) the declining birth rate as the result of an increasing number of young people who do not want to get married or who postpone marriage (EPA 1992, 23; EPA 1994, 12); and (2) the increasing numbers of aged people in the total population as a result of the rising level of income and medical care (EPA 1994, 13).

Keywords: Business Ethic; Aged People; White Paper; Public Pension; Japanese Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403984623_18

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