Masa Higo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4156444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Masa Higo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Masa |
| FAMILY NAME | Higo |
| SIGNATURE | HIGO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1839-1671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Japan’s death-laden society: Five areas of prospective policy challenges
Today, Japan stands as the world’s leading super-aged society. In the coming decade, preceding the rest of the aging globe, the country will phase into the next demographic stage called a “death-laden” society. Due in part to the aging and prospective mortality of the country’s two major baby boom generations along with a projected decline in the number of the working age population, Japan will be laden with ballooning deaths from old age from 20…
Global population aging: Unequal distribution of risks in later life between developed and developing countries
Much of the existing research on population aging has focused on its impact, including both opportunities and challenges, on developed countries, particularly those in Europe and North America. This article discusses how unequally population aging will distribute risks in securing socio-economic resources for the wellbeing of individuals in later life between developed and developing countries around the world. Based on a documentary analysis of …
Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan - Erratum
Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan
Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting economies: the United Kingdom and Japan. Both governments have taken a 'light-touch' approach to work and retirement. However, the highly institutionalised…
Older Worker in National Contexts: A Japan-US Comparison
Surviving Death-Anxieties in Liquid Modern Times: Examining Zygmunt Bauman'S Cultural Theory of Death and Dying
Despite his prominence as a leading contemporary social theorist, Zygmunt Bauman's long-term writing on the cultural theory of death and dying has largely been overlooked in the sociological literature of death and dying, particularly in the United States. Bauman uniquely theorizes how we survive death-anxieties today: Contemporary, liquid modern culture has engaged us in ceaseless pursuit of the unattainable consumer sensation of bodily fitness …
Institutional barriers to work beyond retirement in an aging Japan: Evidence from a recent employee survey
This paper focuses on institutional barriers to older workers' continued work beyond the conventional retirement age in contemporary Japan. Under the current institutional arrangements, most older workers in Japan, contending with mandatory retirement rules at the workplace, have the option of being re-employed after mandatory retirement, and experience large wage reductions if they choose this option. We examine how these institutional arrangeme…
Why Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long: Lessons for the United States
Global population aging: Unequal distribution of risks in later life between developed and developing countries
Much of the existing research on population aging has focused on its impact, including both opportunities and challenges, on developed countries, particularly those in Europe and North America. This article discusses how unequally population aging will distribute risks in securing socio-economic resources for the wellbeing of individuals in later life between developed and developing countries around the world. Based on a documentary analysis of …
Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan
Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting economies: the United Kingdom and Japan. Both governments have taken a 'light-touch' approach to work and retirement. However, the highly institutionalised…
Why Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long: Lessons for the United States
Institutional barriers to work beyond retirement in an aging Japan: Evidence from a recent employee survey
This paper focuses on institutional barriers to older workers' continued work beyond the conventional retirement age in contemporary Japan. Under the current institutional arrangements, most older workers in Japan, contending with mandatory retirement rules at the workplace, have the option of being re-employed after mandatory retirement, and experience large wage reductions if they choose this option. We examine how these institutional arrangeme…
Older Worker in National Contexts: A Japan-US Comparison
Why Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long: Lessons for the United States
Institutional barriers to work beyond retirement in an aging Japan: Evidence from a recent employee survey
This paper focuses on institutional barriers to older workers' continued work beyond the conventional retirement age in contemporary Japan. Under the current institutional arrangements, most older workers in Japan, contending with mandatory retirement rules at the workplace, have the option of being re-employed after mandatory retirement, and experience large wage reductions if they choose this option. We examine how these institutional arrangeme…
Surviving Death-Anxieties in Liquid Modern Times: Examining Zygmunt Bauman'S Cultural Theory of Death and Dying
Despite his prominence as a leading contemporary social theorist, Zygmunt Bauman's long-term writing on the cultural theory of death and dying has largely been overlooked in the sociological literature of death and dying, particularly in the United States. Bauman uniquely theorizes how we survive death-anxieties today: Contemporary, liquid modern culture has engaged us in ceaseless pursuit of the unattainable consumer sensation of bodily fitness …
Older Worker in National Contexts: A Japan-US Comparison
Global population aging: Unequal distribution of risks in later life between developed and developing countries
Much of the existing research on population aging has focused on its impact, including both opportunities and challenges, on developed countries, particularly those in Europe and North America. This article discusses how unequally population aging will distribute risks in securing socio-economic resources for the wellbeing of individuals in later life between developed and developing countries around the world. Based on a documentary analysis of …
Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan - Erratum
Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan
Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting economies: the United Kingdom and Japan. Both governments have taken a 'light-touch' approach to work and retirement. However, the highly institutionalised…
Japan’s death-laden society: Five areas of prospective policy challenges
Today, Japan stands as the world’s leading super-aged society. In the coming decade, preceding the rest of the aging globe, the country will phase into the next demographic stage called a “death-laden” society. Due in part to the aging and prospective mortality of the country’s two major baby boom generations along with a projected decline in the number of the working age population, Japan will be laden with ballooning deaths from old age from 20…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works)