Last Updated 24,December,2003

ISSN 1348-7183

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The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, Vol.2,No.2 (December 2003)

Co-editors:

Takafumi Uzuhashi(Japan Women’s University) and Tetsuo Fukawa(IPSS)

Japan’s Social Security Systems in Comparative Context

Takafumi Uzuhashi. Japanese Model of Welfare State: How it was changed throughout “the lost decade” of the 1990’s? (58Kb)

Taro Miyamoto. The Dynamics of the Japanese Welfare State in Comparative Perspective: Between “Three Worlds” and the Developmental State (61Kb)

Toshimitsu Shinkawa. The Politics of Pension Retrenchment in Japan (54Kb)

Tomo Nishimura. Which policies facilitate the reconciliation between work and family? -An international comparative study among 7 developed countries (52Kb)

Michihiko Tokoro. Social Policy and Lone Parenthood in Japan: A Workfare Tradition? (68Kb)

Aya K. Abe. Low-income people in Social Security Systems in Japan (62Kb)


Public Pension Reforms in 6 Countries: Part 1 of 2

Harald Conrad and Tetsuo Fukawa. The 2000/2001 Pension Reform in Germany ? Implications and Possible Lessons for Japan (59Kb)

Robert L. Clark. Reforming Social Security: Distributional, Equity, and Economic Considerations (85Kb)


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