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South Korea's Demographic Dividend
Echoes of the Past or Prologue to the Future?
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2019
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South Korea’s Demographic Dividend: Echoes of the Past or Prologue to the Future? weaves together the compelling story of social and demographic effects of the economic miracle in South Korea. This exploration of social change examines the demographic dividend: a window of time when a large percentage of a country’s population is in the working ages as a result of low fertility and declining mortality. The working-age population benefits from a relatively small dependent population as the size of the elderly cohort is small and the percentage of children is decreasing. This allows the working-age cohort to amass savings and increase productivity. But what happens when that demographic dividend comes to a close and the working age population must support a large elderly population?
For centuries South Koreans relied on the intergenerational Confucian contract whereby parents supported children with the reciprocal expectation that children would support their parents in their older years. In South Korea’s Demographic Dividend Dr. Stephen examines what happens to families—and the larger society— when this contract is broken. The book concludes with proposed policies that address the maintenance of social cohesion in light of structural changes in the personal and public spheres as a result of Korea’s unprecedented economic growth.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-8084-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-8086-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
125
Product Type
Monograph
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1. Demographic Transitions and Economic Dividends: South Korea and the Asian Tigers No access Pages 1 - 17
2. The First and Second Demographic Dividends in South Korea: Perfect Example or Perfect Storm? No access Pages 18 - 40
3. Social Change in the Midst of Economic Growth No access Pages 41 - 64
4. Korean Elderly: Empty Aging No access Pages 65 - 90
