How Will the 3.11 Earthquake Transform the Population and Labor Market in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima?: Knowledge Gained from Existing Studies of Disasters  

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Zhou, Yanfei

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 9 no. 4 (2012), page 64-85.
Topik: Human Capital; Disaster-Afflicted Areas; Economy Stagnant; Disaster Reconstruction
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Based on existing studies of disasters, one can see that human capital and being on the path to growth are the two keys to the recovery of the disaster-afflicted areas. If human capital outflows due to the nuclear power plant accident are also taken into account, the damage to human capital in Fukushima Prefecture has been immense, and given that the underlying trend of the economy there was somewhat stagnant even before the disaster, one would expect that it will take longer to achieve recovery there than in the other two prefectures, and that it will be difficult to regain its previous population and scale of employment. On the other hand, the scale of the damage to human capital in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures was about the same scale as that seen in Kobe as a result of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. It is anticipated that the post-disaster reconstruction of Miyagi Prefecture, which was on the path to growth to some extent before the disaster, will progress rather more smoothly than it will in Iwate Prefecture, where the pre-disaster economy was somewhat stagnant. In fact, if one looks solely at trends in employment, the economic climate and population, one can see that the path to recovery from the aftermath of this disaster through to the present day has followed a path that runs broadly in line with projections.

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