Korea's Retirement Predicament (eBook, ePUB)

The Ageing Tiger
Redaktion: Klassen, Thomas R.; Yang, Yunjeong

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 and labour market implications of this widespread practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135046422
• Artikelnr.: 39287447

Autorenporträt

Thomas R. Klassen is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Policy and Administration, at York University, Canada. Yunjeong Yang is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of International Development Studies at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction to retirement in Korea 2. Demographic change in
Korea and East Asia 3. The welfare state and income security for the
elderly in Korea 4. The legal foundations of mandatory retirement in Korea
5. Korean women and retirement 6. Institutionalization of the Retirement
Pension Plan and the limited role of corporatism in Korea 7. National
pension, labour market and retirement in Korea: Institutional mismatch and
policy alternatives 8. Changing retirement patterns in Japan 9. Retiring
immigrants: Korean seniors' lives after migration to Canada 10. The future
of retirement