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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452522503321

Titolo

Korea's retirement predicament : the ageing tiger / / edited by Thomas R. Klassen and Yunjeong Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-138-56256-4

1-135-04642-5

0-203-36208-X

1-135-04643-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in Korean studies ; ; 28

Altri autori (Persone)

KlassenThomas Richard <1957->

YangYunjeong

Disciplina

306.3/8095195

Soggetti

Retirement - Government policy - Korea (South)

Early retirement - Korea (South)

Retirement age - Korea (South)

Women - Retirement - Korea (South)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Young Ki Choi -- Introduction to retirement in Korea / Thomas R. Klassen and Kun-ha Yu -- Demographic change in Korea and East Asia / Ghazy Mujahid -- The welfare state and income security for the elderly in Korea / Jae-jin Yang -- The legal foundations of mandatory retirement in Korea / Yongman Cho -- Korean women and retirement / Yunjeong Yang and Soondool Chung -- Institutionalization of the retirement pension plan and the limited role of corporatism in Korea / MyungJoon Park -- National pension, labour market and retirement in Korea : institutional mismatch and policy alternatives / Hanam Phang -- Changing retirement patterns in Japan / Koichi Hiraoka -- Retiring immigrants : Korean seniors' lives after migration to Canada / Ann H. Kim -- The future of retirement / Masa Higo and Thomas R. Klassen.

Sommario/riassunto

The distinguishing feature for many workers in South Korea is



contractual - and often involuntary - retirement at a young age (mid-50s for most workers) followed by precarious and low-paying self-employment or contract work.This book examines how this retirement arrangement arose, and the policy reforms that have been both undertaken and proposed to allow workers to remain employed longer. Using a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, the authors study contractual mandatory retirement trends and policies in South Korea, and in doing so illuminate the political, social, legal, economic a