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200 00$aKorea's retirement predicament $ethe ageing tiger /$fedited by Thomas R. Klassen and Yunjeong Yang
210  1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (188 p.)
225 1 $aRoutledge advances in Korean studies ;$v28
225  0$aRoutledge advances in Korean studies ;$v28
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aForeword / 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.
330   $aThe 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
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606   $aRetirement$xGovernment policy$zKorea (South)
606   $aEarly retirement$zKorea (South)
606   $aRetirement age$zKorea (South)
606   $aWomen$xRetirement$zKorea (South)
615  0$aRetirement$xGovernment policy
615  0$aEarly retirement
615  0$aRetirement age
615  0$aWomen$xRetirement
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701   $aKlassen$b Thomas Richard$f1957-$01107709
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