Languages: English. Japan is poised to significantly overhaul its approach to childbirth costs as part of a sweeping initiative to tackle its declining birth rate. A government panel has ...

Japan lags far behind other big economies with an index for its real average annual wages showing almost no growth between 1995 and 2021, according to IMF data. That compares with growth rates of ...

Using prefectural data, we study the potential impact on wage dynamics of the planned minimum wage increase policy in Japan. Our main result is that stepping up minimum wage growth from 2 to the ...

Indian states are experiencing a sudden decline in birth rate according to the data from the Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report 2021, released by the Registrar General of India ...

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With birth rates falling and immigration facing political pushback, what does that mean for future economic growth and equity ...

BEIJING--Mainland China’s birth rate dropped to a record low in 2021, data showed on Monday, extending a downward trend that led Beijing last year to begin allowing couples to have up to three ...