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Book Synopsis The Changing Japanese Labor Market by : Akiomi Kitagawa
Download or read book The Changing Japanese Labor Market written by Akiomi Kitagawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Japanese Economy by : Peter Drysdale
Download or read book The Japanese Economy written by Peter Drysdale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility by : Kazuyoshi Kōshiro
Download or read book Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility written by Kazuyoshi Kōshiro and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, increased labor market flexibility seems to have become an indispensable ingredient of economic success. This book examines the critical issues that affect labor market flexibility and job security in the main industrialized economies of the United States, Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and Europe, in an attempt to more fully understand the complex forces at work within such labor markets. Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility originated from The International Symposium on Labor Market Flexibility in Yokohama, Japan, in 1986, in which scholars in economics, industrial relations, and labor law scholars scrutinized the similarities and differences of the labor markets in these countries. They focused on three main topics: wage flexibility in response to changing economic conditions, the legal and institutional framework for employment security, and international comparison of employment adjustment. Comparison of wage flexibility as well as numerical and functional flexibility among these countries were examined by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The labor market cannot be treated in the same way as other markets because it deals directly with human beings who are less likely to obey the immutable laws of the market mechanism. Nevertheless, Kazutoshi Koshiro asserts that it is still important to build a framework on which to understand and assess the role of labor flexibility in the competitive process, and it is with this framework in mind that these chapters have been assembled into one volume. Individual chapters compare the relative flexibility of compensation and employment over the business cycle in the United States with that of Japan; analyze the relative flexibility of Japanese wages; unravel some of the underlying forces that comprise the employment security situation in the United States; study the important relationship between economic conditions and the labor market and explain the difference between the employment protection legislation of the United States on the one hand, and Europe and Japan, on the other; and compare the nature of labor markets and employment adjustment techniques of the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Book Synopsis Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy by : Bai Gao
Download or read book Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy written by Bai Gao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major addition to the literature on modern Japanese development, emphasizing the role of ideas and ideology.
Book Synopsis Labour Productivity and Flexibility by : Edward J. Amadeo
Download or read book Labour Productivity and Flexibility written by Edward J. Amadeo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-12-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about two polemical issues in labour studies, namely, the notions and determinants of labour productivity and flexibility. This book attempts to develop the notion of labour input flexibility or the capacity of workers to adapt to changes in the environment and its relation with labour productivity. The role of institutions, employment practices, capital-labour relations and labour market policies in determining labour flexibility is emphasized. The chapters look at the experiences of industrialized countries (European countries, the USA, Canada and Japan) and three Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile and Mexico).
Book Synopsis Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy by : Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
Download or read book Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy written by Hiroaki Richard Watanabe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation. In this context, labour market deregulation was considered an effective tool to cope with those economic problems. However, the forms and degrees of labour market deregulation in the two countries were quite different. This book seeks to explain the differences in labour market deregulation policies between Japan and Italy, despite the fact that the two countries shared a number of similar political, social and labour market (if not cultural) characteristics. Uniquely, it takes a political, rather than economic or sociological perspective to provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the processes of labour market deregulation in the two countries. The precarious working conditions of an increasing number of non-regular workers has become a prominent social issue in many industrialised countries including Japan and Italy, but the level of the protection for these workers depends on a country’s labour market policies, which are affected by the power resources of labour unions and labour policy-making structures. This book provides a useful perspective for understanding the root causes of this phenomenon, such as the diffusion of ‘neoliberal’ ideas aimed at promoting labour-market flexibility under globalisation, and demonstrates that there is still room for politics to decide the extent of deregulation and maintain worker protection from management offensives even in an era of globalisation. Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy: Worker Protection under Neoliberal Globalisation will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese politics, Italian politics, political economy and comparative politics.
Book Synopsis Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility by : Sandrine Cazes
Download or read book Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility written by Sandrine Cazes and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While offering a comparison of employment stability and flexibility in 16 OECD countries, the book provides a detailed analysis on the type of labor market regulations needed to ensure a balance of employment flexibility and security.
Book Synopsis Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets by : C. Mosk
Download or read book Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets written by C. Mosk and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-10-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explains the salient features of the Japanese labour market. The key idea in this book is integrated segmentation. Emphasis is upon segmentation: on the demand side, within the educational system and, on supply side, monitoring costs which underlie labour contracts. Using long run official government statistical evidence, it is argued that what is peculiar to Japan is the integration of segmented labour markets. By virtue of segmentation the Japanese labour market is deeply competitive. By virtue of integration it is highly cooperative.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility by : Fabio Berton
Download or read book The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility written by Fabio Berton and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labor market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security.
Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Asian Labour Markets by : John Benson
Download or read book The Dynamics of Asian Labour Markets written by John Benson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of Asian labour markets in a cross section of eight Asian economies including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. It considers how these markets have responded to globalisation, and assesses likely future trends and developments.
Book Synopsis Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies by : Susan N. Houseman
Download or read book Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies written by Susan N. Houseman and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2003 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises a collection of papers which use an interdisciplinary and cross-country comparative framework to understand why nonstandard work has grown in so many countries and its implications for workers.
Book Synopsis Japanese Labour and Management in Transition by : Mari Sako
Download or read book Japanese Labour and Management in Transition written by Mari Sako and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Wage Determination and Distribution in Japan by : Toshiaki Tachibanaki
Download or read book Wage Determination and Distribution in Japan written by Toshiaki Tachibanaki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise investigates the empirical and theoretical issues of wage determination and wage differentials in Japan since World War II, concentrating on recent developments and highlighting Japan's institutional singularities
Download or read book Labour Market Flexibility written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses five major topics: the meaning of the term "flexibility", the various forms which it takes in practice, its short-and long-term implications, the diverse forms it may assume in different national contexts, and finally its effectiveness as an instrument of economic and employment policy
Author :Ewald Walterskirchen Publisher :International Labour Organization ISBN 13 :9789221072904 Total Pages :152 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (729 download)
Book Synopsis Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility by : Ewald Walterskirchen
Download or read book Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility written by Ewald Walterskirchen and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austro-Keynesianism (based on an expansionary fiscal policy, a strong currency policy and an incomes policy) can be seen as an explanation for Austria's success in combining low unemployment with moderate inflation, social consensus and informal tripartite co-operation in most fields.
Book Synopsis Labor Market Adjustments in the Pacific Basin by : Peter Chinloy
Download or read book Labor Market Adjustments in the Pacific Basin written by Peter Chinloy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter T. Chinloy and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer I. Background to Adjustments in Labor Markets The book examines the process of adjustment in labor markets across countries arising from external shocks and shifts in international competi tiveness. The examination of specific countries and their data permits a comparison of alternative institutions for compensating and redeploying labor. Four countries are involved, whose labor markets are both competi tive and complementary: Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. Both public labor market institutions, such as direct government com~ pensation of displaced workers and the effect of unemployment insurance, and private market arrangements, such as em loyer-employee agreements on layoffs, the work contract, and severance pay, are considered. Compara tive examination across countries of labor market and related insitutions is thus possible. The book has a common theme, namely the adjustment of labor markets to exogenous shocks, particularly those externally induced. The unifying focus in on workers whose specific skills in an industry or firm render them relatively immobile.
Book Synopsis Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation by : Huiyan Fu
Download or read book Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation written by Huiyan Fu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied. TAW is characterised by a distinct triangular structure where workers are typically hired by staffing or employment agencies while being ’dispatched’ to firms that use them as a type of temporary or non-regular labour. This agency-mediated labour dispatching, as a newly institutionalised industry, has registered rapid growth rates over recent decades across vast swathes of the globe. To a great degree, TAW is part of a wider structural transformation of work and employment under neoliberalism. Arguably, controversy over the expanding non-regular workforce is at its most acute when it comes to unsavoury labour-selling practices. In this connection, TAW is an exemplary field in which to examine today’s ’flexible’ capitalism and its concomitant phenomenon, i.e. ’inequality’. Featuring holistic and interdisciplinary perspectives, this edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of TAW, in an international context. It reveals how the TAW industry is intertwined with the changing relationship between the state, corporations and labour unions at the institutional-structural level, and also the perceptions and experiences of ordinary workers in everyday practice. By combining global and local forces, macro and micro levels of analysis, and theoretical and empirical investigations, the book offers fresh insights into recurring issues of labour flexibility and inequality, contributes to practical applications and facilitates fruitful cross-national collaborations.
