Poverty and Inequality in East Asia

Contents:

Foreword xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
1 Introduction to Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work,
Family and Policy 1
Peter Saunders and Inhoe Ku
2 Working poverty and anti-poverty policy in four East
Asian societies 14
Aya Abe, Yu-Ling Chang, Ji Young Kang, Jennifer
Romich, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang
3 Income packaging and social safety nets for low-income
families with children in East Asia 38
Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Irene Y.H. Ng, Inhoe Ku, Ji Young
Kang, Xi Zhao, Chenhong Peng, Aya Abe, and Yinan Yao
4 Childlessness and social support in four East Asian societies 63
Aya Abe
5 Married women's employment and the motherhood
employment penalty by couple's educational attainment
across ten countries 86
Ji Young Kang, Wonjin Lee, Sunyu Ham, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang
6 Adult, child and sibling deprivation in Hong Kong 109
Peter Saunders, Hung Wong, and Vera Mun Yu Tang
7 Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, South
Korea, and Taiwan 129
Bruce Bradbury, Aya Abe, Markus Jaentti, Inhoe Ku, and
Julia Shu-Huah Wang
8 Poverty among young adults in East Asia - a comparative study 153
Geumsun Byun, Mihee Park, and Hyejin Ko
9 Old-age poverty in rural China in the new century 176
Shi Li and Mengbing Zhu
10 What makes old-age poverty in East Asian societies so high? 196
Inhoe Ku, Wonjin Lee, Aya Abe, Mengbing Zhu, Shi Li,
Chungyang Yeh, and Dongjin Kim
11 Conclusion 221
Inhoe Ku and Peter Saunders

Index 231

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• Assistência social e serviços sociais
• Pobreza e desemprego
• A discriminação social e desigualdade
• Sociologia, família e relacionamentos

relative poverty; income inequality; welfare policies and institutions; changing labour markets; changing demographics within and between families