Korea's Retirement Predicament: The Ageing Tiger

ISBN-13: 9781138562561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Thomas R. Klassen; Yunjeong Yang

Opis

Using a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book studies the contractual, mandatory retirement trends and policies in South Korea, and in doing so illuminates the political, social, legal, economic and labour market implications of this widespread practice.

Spis treści

Foreword 1. Introduction to retirement in Korea 2. Demographic change in Korea and East Asia 3. The welfare state and income security for the elderly in Korea 4. The legal foundations of mandatory retirement in Korea 5. Korean women and retirement 6. Institutionalization of the Retirement Pension Plan and the limited role of corporatism in Korea 7. National pension, labour market and retirement in Korea: Institutional mismatch and policy alternatives 8. Changing retirement patterns in Japan 9. Retiring immigrants: Korean seniors' lives after migration to Canada 10. The future of retirement