East Asian social policy towards the challenges of of an aging society

Authors

  • Bartosz Pieliński Instytut Polityki Społecznej Uniwersytet Warszawski

Keywords:

aging society, East Asia, social policy

Abstract

The paper aims to describe how aging society has influenced social policy in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. It analyses a change in demographic structure of Asian societies as well it presents the history of  the development of social policy in East Asia. The last section of the paper shows how much the change in demographic structure has been influencing the conservative welfare state characteristic of the  East Asian countries.

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Published

2016-02-16

How to Cite

Pieliński, B. (2016). East Asian social policy towards the challenges of of an aging society. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2(312). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/foe/article/view/376

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The service sector & aging societies

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