The Changing Structure Of Labour In Japan

Author : Akiomi Kitagawa,Souichi Ohta,Hiroshi Teruyama
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811071584

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The Changing Japanese Labor Market by Akiomi Kitagawa,Souichi Ohta,Hiroshi Teruyama Pdf

This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for Japanese firms during the period of high economic growth from the middle of the 1950s until the burst of bubbles in the early 1990s. The prolonged stagnation after the bubble burst induced an increasing number of people to criticize the Japanese employment system as a barrier to the structural changes needed to allow the economy to adjust to the new environment, with detractors suggesting that such a system only serves to protect the vested interests of incumbent workers and firms. By investigating what caused the long stagnation of the Japanese economy, this book examines the validity of this currently dominant view about the Japanese employment system. The rigorous theoretical and empirical analyses presented in this book provide readers with deep insights into the nature of the current Japanese labor market and its macroeconomic impacts.

Author : René Haak
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1403942927

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The Changing Structure of Labour in Japan by René Haak Pdf

What changes can be observed in the labor market? What is special about Japanese-style human resource management in the low-growth era, and what are the responses by Japanese and German firms? The book considers the distinctive features of Japanese human resource management, and examines the continuity and changes in employment patterns, such as the expansion of flexible types of employment and specific innovations in Japanese HRM.

Author : Mari Sako,Hiroko Sato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135097073

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Japanese Labour and Management in Transition by Mari Sako,Hiroko Sato Pdf

Japanese Management and Labour in Transition explores the changing face of Japanese industrial relations. Part one of the work outlines recent trends in Japanese labour markets, labour law and corporate strategy, and explores the responses of both management and labour to pressure posed by these trends. Part two analyses the interaction between the state, management and labour, considering both the macro and the micro levels. This compilation of up-to-date research by leading Japanese scholars challenges the traditional view of 'lifetime' employment and focuses on the growing economic pressures that Japanese management and labour currently face.

Author : Robert W. Bednarzik,Clinton R Shiells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Labor market
ISBN : UCSD:31822006662472

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Structural Change and Labor Market Adjustment by Robert W. Bednarzik,Clinton R Shiells Pdf

Author : Asuo Kawasaki
Publisher : [Tokyo] : Asian Productivity Organization
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008834496

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Changes in Japan's Labour Market During High-rate Economic Growth by Asuo Kawasaki Pdf

Author : Marcus Rebick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191530005

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The Japanese Employment System by Marcus Rebick Pdf

The stagnation of the Japanese economy and the ageing of Japanese society has led to major changes in the labour market in Japan. This comprehensive study looks at how the Japanese employment system is adapting to its new economic environment. Using the latest statistical evidence, the book focusses on the growing use of part-time and other forms of atypical employment relationships and illustrates how this is expressed in several different parts of the labour market. Particular attention is given to the changing situation of women, the decline of the family enterprise, the problems faced by older workers and the poor prospects for recent high school graduates. The recent rise in unemployment, including hidden unemployment is analysed. Relations between management and employees in Japanese corporations are also becoming more individualistic with the introduction of performance-related pay and the declining importance of enterprise unions. As a result of these changes, the future may see rising levels of income inequality. The Japanese labour force is declining with the ageing of the population and Japan's ability to cope is examined with special attention given to immigration policy. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in what is happening today in Japan and what the possibilities are for the future.

Author : Shigeyoshi Tokunaga,Joachim E. Bergmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : UCBK:B000743761

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Industrial Relations in Transition by Shigeyoshi Tokunaga,Joachim E. Bergmann Pdf

Conference report on post-1973 labour relations in Japan and Germany, Federal Republic - covers labour market structure, personnel management, trade unions, works councils, technological change, rationalization, labour market segmentation and structural change; notes a trend towards conservatism among workers' organizations, and management initiative in joint consultation. References and list of participants. Conference held in Sendai (Japan) 1982 Sep 27 to Oct 1.

Author : Nihon Keizai Kenkyū Sentā
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Industries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035432629

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The Japanese Labor Market in 1990 by Nihon Keizai Kenkyū Sentā Pdf

Economic forecast on labour force and employment trends in Japan, for the period from 1975 to 1990 - calculates labour supply and labour demand, wage structure, labour force participation of woman workers, occupational structure, industrial growth, etc. Graphs and statistical tables.

Author : Kenn Ariga,Giorgio Brunello,Yasushi Ohkusa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139431422

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Internal Labour Markets in Japan by Kenn Ariga,Giorgio Brunello,Yasushi Ohkusa Pdf

Japanese labour market practices have attracted considerable attention in the West for two reasons. Firstly, innovative human resource management (HRM) is responsible for the development of competitive industrial sectors. Secondly, inner flexibility of the labour market has produced low unemployment and wage flexibility. This study, originally published in 2000, provides a thorough investigation of the distinctive features of Japanese internal labour markets (ILM) and occupational labour markets (OLM), closely analyses important changes in ILM and considers future developments. It combines a mixture both of descriptive and of theoretical and econometric work and builds on the authors' wel- known previous research in this area. Also contains a detailed case study and the econometric analysis of HRM policies used by a large Japanese firm. Although the focus is on Japanese ILM, international comparisons are made throughout, mainly with reference to Europe and the United States.

Author : Robert E. Cole
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041772992

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Japanese Blue Collar by Robert E. Cole Pdf

Occupational sociology field study of industrial worker behaviour in Japan, emphasising the interaction between the industrialization process and traditional culture and social structure - covers the labour relations system, the wage structure, wage determination, promotion, employment security, human relations, workers adaptation, paternalist management attitude, personnel management, trade unions, etc., and discusses the effects of social change on traditional employees attitudes and motivation. Bibliography pp. 279 to 290 and statistical tables.

Author : Nishimura Junko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317372721

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Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan by Nishimura Junko Pdf

This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession. It has affected the firm-specific internal labour market and on employment practices, which in turn are thought to have greatly influenced Japanese women’s employment. On the other hand, the fertility rate declined and social policies to support women’s employment began to be implemented after the 1990s. This book explores how these labour market structure and social policies interact to affect Japanese women’s employment. The book first analyses the employment patterns of women born between the 1920s and 1970s and examines how they have varied among different birth cohorts. Then, the employment behaviour of women before and after childbirth through the post-child-rearing period, as well as the working career of single mothers are explored for women born in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on the data analyses, the concluding part of this book discusses how the labour market structure and social policies during the 1990s and early 2000s interactively influenced employment behaviour of Japanese women, and some suggestions are put forward for changing women’s employment during the child-rearing years.

Author : Mitsuaki Okabe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312122195

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The Structure of the Japanese Economy by Mitsuaki Okabe Pdf

This book illuminates the characteristics of the Japanese economy and describes the sources of the strength of this dynamic economy. It also analyses how and why these features have been changing over recent years, as a result of deregulation, internationalization, and the accumulation of various assets in the economy. The papers included in this volume, written by leading researchers in their respective areas, together with an introductory overview, provide one of the most detailed and rigorous examinations of the structure of the contemporary Japanese economy. Topics covered in this book include the Japanese firm, the labour market, the patterns of saving, investment and growth, the financial system, macroeconomic policies and international economic relations. While maintaining analytical rigour, the book is easily accessible and useful for those readers with just a basic background of economics.

Author : Philippe Debroux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351769778

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Human Resource Management in Japan by Philippe Debroux Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Seeking to demonstrate a high level of insight, this is an analysis of the characteristics and advantages of Japanese human resource management. It describes the situation and the main trends in the transformation of the Japanese human resource management and employment practices, and investigates the possible options for the future. The work should be useful to academics and policy makers dealing with Japan and courses on human resource management and economics.

Author : Masanori Nakamura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006070143

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Technology Change and Female Labour in Japan by Masanori Nakamura Pdf

Author : Miyohei Shinohara
Publisher : Tokyo : Kinokuniya Bookstore Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Economic development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033751020

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Structural Changes in Japan's Economic Development by Miyohei Shinohara Pdf

Study of the factors contributing to the rapid economic growth of Japan and of the structural changes which have occurred in the economy - covers the labour force force, technological change, the financing structure and investments, consumption expenditure, the role of savings and examines the industrial structure, industrial development, regional and interindustry productivity differentials, etc. Diagrams, map and statistical tables.