Retirement in Japan and South Korea: The past, the present and the future of mandatory retirement - Hardcover
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This book analyzes reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing. A defining feature of the labour markets and workplaces in these two nations, and the lives of workers and families, is involuntary retirement at relatively young ages. The book explains past developments and recent reforms of retirement policies both in the two countries, as well as in a cross-national comparative manner.
Masa Higo is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at Kyushu University, Japan. His research focuses on the roles of population ageing and economic globalization in creating and reproducing risks and inequalities in later life in the United States, Japan and other countries in East Asia.
Thomas R. Klassen is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Policy and Administration, at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has written widely on retirement and income security policies.
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