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Labour Markets, Care Regimes and Foreign Care Worker Policies in E ast A sia
Author(s) -
Song Jiyeoun
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/spol.12081
Subject(s) - workforce , politics , labour economics , business , face (sociological concept) , public policy , economics , economic growth , political science , sociology , social science , law
This article analyzes the politics of foreign care worker policies in J apan, K orea and T aiwan. In the face of socio‐demographic challenges, these countries have responded differently to the increasing demand for hiring foreign care workers, creating distinct policies with respect to the origins of the foreign care workforce, the size of the foreign care workforce in the labour market, and job specifications. In this article, I argue that the interaction of female employment patterns, the public provision (or lack) of social care, and labour market policies in the care service sector determines the diverging political pathways of foreign care worker policies in these three countries over the past two decades.

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