In Japan, you could be admired for taking a daytime snooze at work. Called inemuri, “sleeping while present,” lets you attend a meeting while displaying your diligence through your exhaustion. It lets you signal that you are on the job…
Through robot innovation and changes in retail and housing markets, nations with aging populations will show the impact of a massive demographic shift.
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.
As population shifts, developed nations will have redistribution decisions as the proportion of the non-working aged and the young need more labor income.
A single statistic like the unemployment rate for Japan, the European Union and the U.S. can be misleading until we look more closely at what it represents.
When the Federal Reserve’s three basic monetary policy tools did not work, it created quantitative easing to up economic growth and decrease unemployment.
Primarily for fiscal reasons, in Japan, most 40-74 year olds get their waist size checked each year. A part of the required annual physical exams from local government or employers, waist size is monitored because an obese population can be expensive.…
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