Comparative Gender Analyses of Livelihood Security Systems : Faces of Social Exclusion in Coordinated Market Economies

这项研究通过比较性别分析阐明，日本经济停滞、贫困和社会排斥的蔓延是由其以男性养家糊口为导向的主要国家中最强烈的生计保障制度造成的，并已陷入僵局。还发现，在当前金融和经济危机的背景下，日本和美国的民生保障制度出现了功能失调或功能逆转的情况。这项研究为应对经济和社会恶化的政策形成提供了启示，并为最近发展的全球社会政策研究提供了一个新的视角。

This study clarified through comparative gender analysis that the stagnation of economy and the spread of poverty and social exclusion in Japan were caused by its livelihood security system, which is most strongly "male breadwinner" oriented among major countries, and has reached an impasse. It has also been found that dysfunction or reverse function of livelihood security systems in Japan and the United States are in the background of the current financial and economic crisis. This study offers implications for policy formation to combat economic and societal deterioration, and a new perspective to recently developing studies of global social policy.