現代日本の格差拡大とワーキング・プア(大会報告・共通論題:格差拡大社会-史的接近と現状分析-)

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• The key problem with widening income differentials is that over a quarter of Japanese families are now living under the poverty line. This essay defines "poor family" as a family whose annual pretax, post-cash-transfer income falls below the threshold of Public Assistance. The threshold is measured by the average minimum cost of living of beneficiary families of Public Assistance as estimated by the local welfare office. The overall poverty rate rose from 18.1% in 1997 to 22.3% in 2002 excluding families receiving Public Assistance. In spite of the assertion of then-PM Koizumi, the highest increase was in the number of working poor families (1.4 million added). Poor pensioner families were second (0.8 million). Major changes in the structure of the Japanese labor market, in particular a decline in Japanese-style long term employment practices, was the main cause of the increase of working poor families. Because Japanese-style long term employment was the most effective guarantor of a stable and fair standard of living for most Japanese workers, Japanese social security and social allowances are insufficient. Japanese social security policy has, since the latter half of the era of high economic growth, targeted the care of people who are not able to work either temporarily or permanently. The structural reforms which really started 1997 have destroyed the Japanese style of management on the one hand, and on the other reduced the level of social security. These major changes have resulted in a crisis of social integration, which in turn has stimulated the ruling political groups to introduce a new type of social integration centered on the rich upper class. This perhaps is nothing more than the institutionalization of a differentiated society.

• 政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
• 2007-04-30

著者

• 後藤 道夫

  都留文科大学

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