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The economic situation and income inequality among the older people in Japan
— measurement by Quasi Public Assistance Standard | | Author(s) | Atsuhiro Yamada |
| Corporate Author | National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan |
| Journal title | Review of Population and Social Policy, no 10, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 81-106 |
| Source | National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Hibiya Kokusai Building 6th floor, 2-2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011, Japan. www.ipss.go.jp |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; Poverty ; Cost of living ; Measurement ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The Quasi Public Assistance Standard (QPAS), which is based on the administrative minimum cost of living standard guaranteed by the Constitution in Japan, is applied as a benchmark and an equivalence scale to measure micro data from the Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions of the People on Health and Welfare. The growth of the administrative minimum cost of living standard relative to other social security benefits, the consumer price index and wage growth are also examined. Attention is also paid to lone-parent households in the context of comparison with older households. Key to the next pension reform is how to precisely target economically disadvantaged older households. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011211209 A |
| Classmark | F:W: W6: J3C: 3R: 7DT |
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