Intercultural Communication in Global Workplace or The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan

Intercultural Communication in Global Workplace

Author: Iris Varner

Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace continues to be a vital reference for global business professionals. This new edition features updated discussions on the impact of globalization and technology in business communication, expanded treatment of ethics issues, increased discussion of world religions (particularly the role of Islam), and more short cases for improved ease of reading and comprehension.

Iris Varner (Normal, IL) is a professor at Illinois State University.

Linda Beamer (San Gabriel, CA) is a professor at California State University at Los Angeles.

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The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan

Author: Michael D D Hurd

Due to falling fertility rates, the aging of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the next two decades. These fourteen essays show that, despite differences in culture and social and government structure, population aging will have many similar macro and micro effects on the economic status and behavior of the elderly in both countries.
The most obvious effects will be on social programs such as public pension systems and the provision for medical needs of the elderly. But, the contributors demonstrate, aging will also affect markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services. It will affect firms through their participation in the demand side of the labor market and through their provisions for pensions. And aging will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and, most likely, economic growth.
This volume will interest scholars and policy makers concerned with the economics of aging.

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Presents papers from a conference held in Hakone, Japan, in September 1993, analyzing the macro- and microeconomic effects of an increase in the elderly population in both countries. Examines how population aging will affect social programs and markets for labor, capital, housing, and health care services, and how it will influence saving rates, the rate of return on assets, the balance of payments, and economic growth. Of interest to scholars and policymakers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Projection of Japanese Public Pension Costs in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century and the Effects of Three Possible Reforms	11
2	The Effects of Demographic Trends on Consumption, Saving, and Government Expenditures in the United States	39
3	Population Aging and the Savings-Investment Balance in Japan	59
4	The Economic Position of the Elderly in Japan	89
5	The Consequences of Population Aging for Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets	111
6	The Effects of Aging on National Saving and Asset Accumulation in Japan	131
7	The Impact of Demographics on Housing and Nonhousing Wealth in the United States	153
8	Improvement of After-Retirement Income by Home Equity Conversion Mortgages: Possibility and Problems in Japan	195
9	The Effects of Special Saving Programs on Saving and Wealth	217
10	The Economic Status of the Elderly in Japan: Microdata Findings	241
11	Retirement Incentives: The Interaction between Employer-Provided Pensions, Social Security, and Retiree Health Benefits	261
12	Labor Market Implications of Social Security: Company Pension Plans, Public Pensions, and Retirement Behavior of the Elderly in Japan	295
13	Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows	319
14	The Net Pension Debt of the Japanese Government	333
	Contributors	353
	Author Index	355
	Subject Index	357