Research on the Employment of the Elderly in Japan under the Background of Population Aging_Vol. 1 No. 3 (JMSD 2024)_Journal of Management and Social Development (ISSN: 3005-5741)

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Research on the Employment of the Elderly in Japan under the Background of Population Aging

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202412347

Author(s)

Yang Zhou1, Fan Zhang2

Affiliation(s)

1School of Foreign Languages, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China 2Dalian University of Technology Press, Liaoning, Dalian, China

Abstract

Population aging is a universal and severe problem faced by all countries in the world. The reduction of young and middle-aged labor force, the shrinking size of families and the rising expenditure of social security fees have brought great challenges to the comprehensive management of the country. Japan is one of the first countries in the world to enter aging, and it is the country with the highest degree of aging. Under the background of the great impact of aging on economic and social development, Japan has paid more and more attention to the employment of the elderly, actively improved the policies to promote the employment of the elderly with the help of legislation, such as gradually delaying retirement, providing financial subsidies to enterprises actively employing the elderly, and establishing various platforms to support the employment of the elderly to broaden the employment channels of the elderly. The contradiction of insufficient labor supply has been alleviated largely. These measures provide a useful reference for China to promote and encourage the employment of the elderly.

Keywords

Japan; Population Aging; Employment of the Elderly

References

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