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Social Security, Taxation, and Redistribution in Japan
Author(s) -
CHOPEL ALISON,
KUNO NOZOMU,
STEINMO SVEN
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
public budgeting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1540-5850
pISSN - 0275-1100
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5850.2005.00371.x
Subject(s) - redistribution (election) , social security , point (geometry) , economics , redistribution of income and wealth , public economics , population , point system , labour economics , security system , development economics , economic growth , market economy , politics , political science , computer security , geometry , mathematics , demography , sociology , computer science , law , unemployment , mathematical economics
The paper examines the social security tax and benefit system in Japan. We offer an analysis of the interaction of taxes and benefits showing that the system has evolved to the point where it may no longer fulfill the original intentions. The system today appears to redistribute income from working people, who on average have lower incomes, to the aged population, which today have higher incomes. We suggest the system is in need of significant reform.