Human Resource Management in Ageing Societies

1. Demographic Challenges for Human Resource Management Practices and Labour Market Policies in Japan and Germany — an Overview
Harald Conrad, Viktoria Heindorf, Franz Waldenberger

2. Ageing Workforces and Challenges to Human Resource Management in German Firms
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Stephan Veen

3. Pensions and Labour Market Reforms for the Ageing Society
Atsushi Seike

4. Effects of Institutions on Human Capital Investment: A Comparison of Policies in Japan, Germany and the USA
Birgitta Wolff, Marjaana Gunkel, Sebastian Wenzke

5. Labour, Income and Poverty among Elderly Japanese
Isao Ohashi

6. The Employment of Older Workers in Japanese Firms: Empirical Evidence from Micro Data
Yoshio Higuchi, Isamu Yamamoto

7. Effects of Support Measures on Employment of Elderly People in Japan
Jiro Nakamura

8. Ergonomic Design and Intervention Strategies in Health Promotion for Ageing Workforces
Holger Luczak, Marie-Christine Stemann

9. The Performance-based Salary System and Personnel Management Reforms in Japan
Keisuke Nakamura

10. Paradigm Changes in Labour Market Policies for Older Workers in Germany — Background Factors and Recent Developments
Gerhard Naegele

11. Towards ‘Ageless’ Employment Policies — a Union’s Experience of the Extension of the Mandatory Retirement Age
Nobuyuki Shintani

Keywords: Business and Management, Human Resource Management, International Business