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183208
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Based on Web of Science records of ageing-related studies published during the 1900–2020 period, this article presents a review and comparison of economic studies on ageing in the global context and on the East and Southeast Asian economies. The analysis demonstrates that the global trend of these studies increasingly takes an interdisciplinary approach, and those on East and Southeast Asian economies have similarly expanded into various subdisciplines and covered more geographic locations. There are however gradual shifts in the focus of key areas of studies. Economic studies on ageing in East and Southeast Asian contexts are considerably less influential in that they are fewer in number and receive fewer citations. They also have a stronger emphasis on management efficiency, e.g. "operations research management science", but less on equitable management of relations in the workplace, such as industrial/labour relations. Overall, there are serious gaps in economic studies on ageing for the rapidly ageing societies in Asia, with respect to both geographic coverage and topical investigation.
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183201
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The work and retirement behaviour of older people in East and Southeast Asia is a major social and economic policy issue. The region currently has a relatively strong labour force participation and intensity of work at older ages, although with variations across location, gender and education. Labour income remains the dominant source of elderly income, in part due to underdeveloped social protection systems. The drivers of work and retirement behaviour include health status, access to pensions, care responsibilities and retirement decisions of spouses. There is potential for public policy to extend productive working lives, while mitigating social impacts. This includes extending pension coverage, removing policy barriers to longer and flexible work, building formal care systems, strengthening lifelong learning, and addressing negative societal attitudes. There is also a need for evidence on the productivity of older workers, cost-effectiveness of policy interventions, and the optimal roles of state, markets and households in employment outcomes of older people.
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183199
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Countries in Asia and around the world are experiencing two demographic trends of great importance to their economies. Working-age populations are growing more slowly and the share of population at older ages is increasing more rapidly. The results presented in this article address the economic implications of these changes and strategies for responding. Responding effectively requires that institutions and policies are reformed to ensure that older adults can contribute more to society than was the case for previous generations. Effective investment in human capital can ensure that smaller cohorts of working-age adults can produce as much or more than larger cohorts of working-age adults did in the past. Economic resources can be marshalled by seniors and those approaching retirement to provide for their own economic security and to support stronger economic growth.
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183198
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I was very glad to be invited by Dr Teh Kok Peng, Chairman of the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore and Professor Bert Hofman, Director of the EAI to speak at this important conference, focused on a fundamental dimension of East Asia's future.
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183197
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Population ageing is one of the mega trends of the 21st century. It is a key driver of economic and social transformations as societies with a growing number and share of older adults are making efforts to maintain economic competitiveness and social vibrancy. In the developed world, population ageing is part of the larger post-industrial challenges that catalyse changes to employment, retirement and welfare state institutions.
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183204
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Along with rapid population ageing and extensive policy changes, Chinese attitudes towards elderly care responsibility are shifting. Using nationally representative survey data, this study finds that the proportion of people holding the traditional view that children should be the main elderly care providers decreased from 57 per cent in 2010 to 50 per cent in 2015. Further analyses show that above and beyond individual factors such as gender, age and marital status, social policies and institutions have influenced people's attitudes. Pension coverage, an urban hukou (household registration), and employment in sectors that provide long-standing social programmes and higher pension benefits are factors that may increase people's likelihood to subscribe to an alternative view that the responsibility of elderly care should be shared equally among the government, the child(ren) and the elderly, or mainly undertaken by the government or by the elderly themselves.
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183203
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The tragedy of history's greatest-scaled Malthusian stagnation—the famine and disorder of mid 20th century China—instigated not only dramatic economic reforms from late 1978, but also unique demographic agendas. Separately China's economic and demographic agendas have received substantial attention in the literature. Although their cointegration appears to have formed a fundamental pillar of China's recent economic development success, that integration has received relatively little attention in the literature. This article elaborates China's long-run economic demography approach to its modernisation agenda and the implications for China's ageing-intensifying development prospects. This contributes to the related academic record and sets out what is prospectively a very informative and useful economic development policy reference point for policymaking in all countries.
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183209
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This article uses local official archives of three effluent pollution cases in Hubei in the 1960s–1980s to examine early regulatory failures of industrial waste control. With many unpublished records of official responses, these effluent cases received first exposure in semi-public discourses, while public voices in Hubei protested against the pollution which arose because of the conflicting interests of industrial sectors. In defusing public pressures from pollution, local agencies continually interacted with intricate bureaucratic channels. Experiments with policy enforcement, still prevalent today, had created poor regulatory effects in containing illegal emission incidents initially and in regularising pollution penalties subsequently.
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183205
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Using data from a large representative longitudinal sample of older adults in China, the current study examines the associations between living arrangements and disability measured by activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). The cross-sectional models showed that living alone was associated with the lowest odds of disability among all the seven types of living arrangements. Living with others who are not spouses or offspring and living in an institution were linked to the highest odds of disability, particularly in more recent waves. Other forms of living arrangements such as living with spouse only, living with adult children and living in skipped-generation households lay somewhere in the middle in the correlation to disability. Findings from the transitional models revealed that moving from independent living towards co-residence with family corresponded to higher risks of disability. Overall, the associations were stronger for ADL disability than for IADL disability. The authors observed temporal fluctuations rather than linear trends in these patterns across the 16 years of the study from 2002 to 2018. Study implications are discussed.
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183206
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In policy analyses, the mindset of policymakers is crucial to determine the governing culture, incentivise stakeholders and assess the policy outcomes. By examining the policies associated with community-based care, this article analyses how policymakers have responded to the needs of old age care in China. The research establishes that China has shifted from a fixed to a growth mindset, which anticipates a growing investment in community-based old age care services. However, after the initial excitement, the growth mindset, being fixated on the economic perspectives of the old age care service system, has become a constraint, especially if the performance indicators are not set to improve the quality of care and the development of human resources in age care. It is time to move one step further to adopt a "benefit mindset" that is centred around addressing the needs of older people.
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183200
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Demographic and technological changes are two megatrends set to transform labour markets around the world. These shifts are already under way and are expected to accelerate, particularly in East and Southeast Asia, which is home to the world's oldest and fastest-ageing societies and a region with an enviable pace of economic development. Yet for some countries, demographic ageing is coinciding with a slowdown in productivity and economic growth. While each of these phenomena has been extensively researched, the study of the interactions between them is often incidental and rarely carried out in the Asian setting. This article explores the plausible channels of these interactions and assembles evidence of links between age and productivity at the individual, firm and country levels, drawn from both Asian and global settings. Findings have shown that there are many knowledge gaps, both in data and modelling, which need to be addressed to inform the major policy interventions required to successfully manage these transitions.
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183202
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China has experienced the typical stages of economic development suggested in the economic theories of the relationship between population and economic development. In terms of the general trend of demographic transition, China displays unique characteristics, namely the fastest-ageing society, the largest elderly population and the "growing old before getting rich" phenomenon. While China's working-age population hit its peak in 2010, bringing about supply-side impacts on economic growth, the impending peak of its total population may have demand-side impacts on its economic growth. This article explores how the stagnant population tends to weaken China's consumption and highlights several policy implications drawn from the findings.
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183207
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In 2016, China launched its public long-term care insurance (LTCI) pilots in 15 cities, which have recently been expanded to more areas across the country, signalling a policy move towards a public social insurance model of long-term care financing. This article provides a timely review and assessment of these LTCI pilots. It begins with an overview of the overarching policy guidelines from the central government, followed by a description of local designs and key LTCI policy features by highlighting the similarities and differences across all pilot cities. It also discusses the strengths and limitations, implementation challenges and future prospects of these LTCI pilots.
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