Edited by Inhoe Ku, Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, South Korea and Peter Saunders, Emeritus Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

‘This volume offers both insight into how East Asian societies are changing, while issuing a warning on how and why their welfare states need further change to adapt to these new realities as the characteristics of inequality and differential prosperity found in rich western nations have come to roost in East Asia.’

• Contents:Foreword xivAcknowledgements xvi1 Introduction to Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work,Family and Policy 1Peter Saunders and Inhoe Ku2 Working poverty and anti-poverty policy in four EastAsian societies 14Aya Abe, Yu-Ling Chang, Ji Young Kang, JenniferRomich, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang3 Income packaging and social safety nets for low-incomefamilies with children in East Asia 38Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Irene Y.H. Ng, Inhoe Ku, Ji YoungKang, Xi Zhao, Chenhong Peng, Aya Abe, and Yinan Yao4 Childlessness and social support in four East Asian societies 63Aya Abe5 Married women’s employment and the motherhoodemployment penalty by couple’s educational attainmentacross ten countries 86Ji Young Kang, Wonjin Lee, Sunyu Ham, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang6 Adult, child and sibling deprivation in Hong Kong 109Peter Saunders, Hung Wong, and Vera Mun Yu Tang7 Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, SouthKorea, and Taiwan 129Bruce Bradbury, Aya Abe, Markus Jäntti, Inhoe Ku, andJulia Shu-Huah Wang8 Poverty among young adults in East Asia – a comparative study 153Geumsun Byun, Mihee Park, and Hyejin Ko9 Old-age poverty in rural China in the new century 176Shi Li and Mengbing Zhu10 What makes old-age poverty in East Asian societies so high? 196Inhoe Ku, Wonjin Lee, Aya Abe, Mengbing Zhu, Shi Li,Chungyang Yeh, and Dongjin Kim11 Conclusion 221Inhoe Ku and Peter SaundersIndex 231

Edited by Inhoe Ku, Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, South Korea and Peter Saunders, Emeritus Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

‘This volume offers both insight into how East Asian societies are changing, while issuing a warning on how and why their welfare states need further change to adapt to these new realities as the characteristics of inequality and differential prosperity found in rich western nations have come to roost in East Asia.’

• Contents:Foreword xivAcknowledgements xvi1 Introduction to Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work,Family and Policy 1Peter Saunders and Inhoe Ku2 Working poverty and anti-poverty policy in four EastAsian societies 14Aya Abe, Yu-Ling Chang, Ji Young Kang, JenniferRomich, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang3 Income packaging and social safety nets for low-incomefamilies with children in East Asia 38Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Irene Y.H. Ng, Inhoe Ku, Ji YoungKang, Xi Zhao, Chenhong Peng, Aya Abe, and Yinan Yao4 Childlessness and social support in four East Asian societies 63Aya Abe5 Married women’s employment and the motherhoodemployment penalty by couple’s educational attainmentacross ten countries 86Ji Young Kang, Wonjin Lee, Sunyu Ham, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang6 Adult, child and sibling deprivation in Hong Kong 109Peter Saunders, Hung Wong, and Vera Mun Yu Tang7 Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, SouthKorea, and Taiwan 129Bruce Bradbury, Aya Abe, Markus Jäntti, Inhoe Ku, andJulia Shu-Huah Wang8 Poverty among young adults in East Asia – a comparative study 153Geumsun Byun, Mihee Park, and Hyejin Ko9 Old-age poverty in rural China in the new century 176Shi Li and Mengbing Zhu10 What makes old-age poverty in East Asian societies so high? 196Inhoe Ku, Wonjin Lee, Aya Abe, Mengbing Zhu, Shi Li,Chungyang Yeh, and Dongjin Kim11 Conclusion 221Inhoe Ku and Peter SaundersIndex 231

Edited by Inhoe Ku, Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, South Korea and Peter Saunders, Emeritus Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

‘This volume offers both insight into how East Asian societies are changing, while issuing a warning on how and why their welfare states need further change to adapt to these new realities as the characteristics of inequality and differential prosperity found in rich western nations have come to roost in East Asia.’

• Contents:Foreword xivAcknowledgements xvi1 Introduction to Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work,Family and Policy 1Peter Saunders and Inhoe Ku2 Working poverty and anti-poverty policy in four EastAsian societies 14Aya Abe, Yu-Ling Chang, Ji Young Kang, JenniferRomich, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang3 Income packaging and social safety nets for low-incomefamilies with children in East Asia 38Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Irene Y.H. Ng, Inhoe Ku, Ji YoungKang, Xi Zhao, Chenhong Peng, Aya Abe, and Yinan Yao4 Childlessness and social support in four East Asian societies 63Aya Abe5 Married women’s employment and the motherhoodemployment penalty by couple’s educational attainmentacross ten countries 86Ji Young Kang, Wonjin Lee, Sunyu Ham, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang6 Adult, child and sibling deprivation in Hong Kong 109Peter Saunders, Hung Wong, and Vera Mun Yu Tang7 Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, SouthKorea, and Taiwan 129Bruce Bradbury, Aya Abe, Markus Jäntti, Inhoe Ku, andJulia Shu-Huah Wang8 Poverty among young adults in East Asia – a comparative study 153Geumsun Byun, Mihee Park, and Hyejin Ko9 Old-age poverty in rural China in the new century 176Shi Li and Mengbing Zhu10 What makes old-age poverty in East Asian societies so high? 196Inhoe Ku, Wonjin Lee, Aya Abe, Mengbing Zhu, Shi Li,Chungyang Yeh, and Dongjin Kim11 Conclusion 221Inhoe Ku and Peter SaundersIndex 231