Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "The Japanese Welfare State and the Pandemic," with Margarita Estévez-Abe

Wed, Nov 16, 9:00-10:00 am JST (Tue, Nov 15, 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)

The SARS-COV-2 pandemic has revealed a lot about the state of welfare states in advanced industrial countries. How has Japan fared in comparison to its peers? Can we learn any lessons from Japan? What lessons should Japan learn from other countries? Japan has been able to protect its elderly population from the pandemic but did not do a good job of protecting younger women. This event explores the pros and cons of the Japanese welfare state.

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Margarita Estévez-Abe taught at Harvard University before joining Syracuse and also served as the first chair of Public Policy at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy. Her research covers comparative political economy, comparative welfare states and Japanese politics. She's the author of Welfare Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge University Press), winner of the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Award, and editor of Outsourcing of Domestic and Care Work (Special Issue, Social Politics) and Beyond Familialism (Special Issue, Journal of European Social Policy). She's currently finishing her book manuscript on marriage migration in Japan, Korea and Taiwan entitled, Globalizing the Family in East Asia.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the director of JFIT. Her research focuses on Japan's changing corporate strategies, including business culture, change management, and business organization. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition.

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