书目名称 | Low Fertility and Population Aging in Japan and Eastern Asia |
编辑 | Toru Suzuki |
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概述 | Presents a comparative cultural view of family patterns in Eastern Asia based on historical and anthropological findings.Includes original mathematical and formal demographic analyses of fertility dec |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Population Studies |
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描述 | This book provides a unique comparative view of the extremely low fertility and drastic population aging in Eastern Asian countries. After discussing demographic and political developments of Japan in detail as a reference case, accelerated changes in Korea, Taiwan and China are interpreted with a comparative cultural view. In addition to the well-known cultural divide between countries with strong and weak family ties, this book proposes another divide between offspring of the feudal family and that of the Confucian family. Included is a discussion of how the discrepancy between the compressed change in the socioeconomic system and the slow change in the family system has resulted in extremely low fertility in Eastern Asia. A comparison of policy development reveals that the sense of overpopulation has caused difficulty in launching pro-natal policy interventions in Eastern Asia, especially in China. Impacts of fertility decline on population aging, total dependency ratio and the timing of population decline in Eastern Asia are analyzed with a stylized model. The remaining Confucian family pattern is especially important in understanding and predicting political development to cop |
出版日期 | Book 2013 |
关键词 | Eastern Asia; Family policy; Fertility; Population aging |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54780-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-4-431-54779-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-4-431-54780-8Series ISSN 2211-3215 Series E-ISSN 2211-3223 |
issn_series | 2211-3215 |
copyright | The Author(s) 2013 |