Aging Population &

Social Economy Effects

WORK AND ECONOMICS OF WORK ORGANIZATION IN JAPAN
JUSTIN CHAN TUCK LEONG

Significance

Why Population matters?

https://www.populationinstitute.org/resources/whypopulationmatters/

The world is confronting a host of major crises relating to climate, energy,

severe poverty, food, the global economy and political instability

Population is expected to increase to 9.2 Billion by the end of the century

Effects the Social Economy development of the country especially that of

Japan

Natural Population Change

Birth Rate Vs. Mortality rate

The changes in Population Pyramid

The situation likely to cause

Retiree increases and children (0-4) reduces

Reduce of labour force working age group same as the total of elderly
people and children

Dependency ratio increases

Dwindling of government public fund

Therefore, Japan be a model/ example for other developing countries to

avoid similar situation

Main Variables

Advancement in health care and medical industry

Total life expectancy vs. healthy life expectancy the gap causes medical
cost to rise up

What is the definition of elderly people? In Japan context? Avg 66

How is old worker defined? Now that the labour market has changed

The dependency ratio consumer increases rapidly compared to the

contributors

Research Questions

What is meant by healthy and able elderly people in terms of employment?

What are the social economy effects due to population aging?

What are the government policies implemented in response to the

demographic change in Japan? What are the likely effect to the
implementation

Some of the ideas the major concept

might be operationalized

Education to the public

Education might fail/increase in quality

Changing the scope of work

Immigrants to come to work (temp solution)

Woman to join the workforce (temp solution)

Increasing the birthrate shorten long working hours

Not many retirement houses and institutions

Public pension funds and healthcare

Problem

So far I have managed to gather almost 30 journals and counting

However the most are from 90s not many after 2000

Why is there less research in this issues as time passes?