We provide a structured literature review of long-term care (LTC) insurance using main path
analysis, a mathematical tool to identify the most significant paths in a citation network. We …

Past government spending in Japan is imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in
a net debt to output ratio near 150%. In addition, an aging Japanese society implies that …

Japan is in the midst of a demographic transition that is both rapid and large by international
standards. As recently as 1990 Japan had the youngest population among the Group of 6 …

Japan is aging and has the highest government debt‐to‐output ratio among advanced
economies. In this article, we build a micro data‐based, large‐scale overlapping …

Reform is inevitable in an aging economy with a generous pay-as-you-go social security
system. Often, however, the timing and structure of reform are unknown. We explicitly model …

Women work less often and earn significantly less than men in Japan. We use panel data to
investigate employment and earnings dynamics of single and married women over the life …

The speed and magnitude of ongoing demographic aging in Japan are unprecedented. A
rapid decline in the labor force and a rising fiscal burden to finance social security …

Inequality has become a central policy issue across the world. We study trends of inequality
in earnings, income and wealth across households in Japan, using the National Survey of …

We construct a transition analysis based on a general equilibrium life‐cycle model to
investigate the effects of aging, and we evaluate various policy alternatives designed to …

A means-tested pension system has a distinct feature that tailors the level of pension
benefits according to individual economic status. In the context of population aging with …