Author: Michael Smitka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Japanese Labor Markets and Subcontracting
Author: Michael Smitka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Widening Disparities in the Korean and Japanese Labor Markets
Author: Hyŏn-jong Kil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor market
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor market
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Work and Pay in Japan
Author: Robert A. Hart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521577724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It contains extensive discussion of the effects of industrial relations, small business activity, business cycles and schooling on work and pay. An early chapter is devoted to presenting, in an accessible manner, essential labour market ideas and concepts that recur throughout the text. Important topics covered include (i) unions and wage determination, (ii) the breakdown of total labour costs, (iii) the Japanese bonus system, (iv) the employment life-cycle, (v) small businesses and subcontracting, (vi) pay and productivity over the business cycle. A key feature is that subject areas and themes are examined within a comparative United States/European framework. This allows assessments of whether or not the structure and performance of the Japanese labour market has differed from experience elsewhere.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521577724
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese labour market institutions and practices with respect to employment issues and labour payments. It contains extensive discussion of the effects of industrial relations, small business activity, business cycles and schooling on work and pay. An early chapter is devoted to presenting, in an accessible manner, essential labour market ideas and concepts that recur throughout the text. Important topics covered include (i) unions and wage determination, (ii) the breakdown of total labour costs, (iii) the Japanese bonus system, (iv) the employment life-cycle, (v) small businesses and subcontracting, (vi) pay and productivity over the business cycle. A key feature is that subject areas and themes are examined within a comparative United States/European framework. This allows assessments of whether or not the structure and performance of the Japanese labour market has differed from experience elsewhere.
Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets
Author: C. Mosk
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230377912
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230377912
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Competitive Ties
Author: Michael Smitka
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231072823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl. Huang's characters -- generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty -- come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231072823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. "His Son's Big Doll" introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in "Xiaoqi's Cap" a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl. Huang's characters -- generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty -- come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.
Symbiotic Dualism
Author: Sejin Pak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial organization
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial organization
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Changing Japanese Labor Market
Author: Akiomi Kitagawa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811071586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811071586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
International Fragmentation of Production
Author: Nobuaki Yamashita
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 184980723X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Using state-of-the-art econometric tools, this book examines the implications of international fragmentation of production for the performance of the Japanese manufacturing industry.The impact of the ongoing process of international fragmentation of production and outsourcing has become a highly contentious issue in developed economies such as the US and Japan. Concerns about deindustrialisation and large-scale job losses - 'the export of jobs' have generated a political backlash against multinationals and globalisation. Using detailed data from Japanese multinationals this book rigorously analyses the Japanese experience and compares and contrasts it with the experience of US manufacturing. The study finds no empirical evidence that expansion of multinational activities in foreign countries produces job losses in the home country. Indeed, when demand induced indirectemployment effects are taken into account the increased profitability of Japanese firms is likely to have increased overall employment in Japan. However, the shift of labour intensive activities to low wage economies associated with the international fragmentation of production generates adjustment pressures and a structural shift in favour of skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 184980723X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Using state-of-the-art econometric tools, this book examines the implications of international fragmentation of production for the performance of the Japanese manufacturing industry.The impact of the ongoing process of international fragmentation of production and outsourcing has become a highly contentious issue in developed economies such as the US and Japan. Concerns about deindustrialisation and large-scale job losses - 'the export of jobs' have generated a political backlash against multinationals and globalisation. Using detailed data from Japanese multinationals this book rigorously analyses the Japanese experience and compares and contrasts it with the experience of US manufacturing. The study finds no empirical evidence that expansion of multinational activities in foreign countries produces job losses in the home country. Indeed, when demand induced indirectemployment effects are taken into account the increased profitability of Japanese firms is likely to have increased overall employment in Japan. However, the shift of labour intensive activities to low wage economies associated with the international fragmentation of production generates adjustment pressures and a structural shift in favour of skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing.
Subcontracting Blue-collar Workers
Author: Akihisa Okada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contract system (Labor)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contract system (Labor)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Shifting Boundaries of the Firm
Author: Mari Sako
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199268169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This in-depth exploration of the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders considers the issue of the 'organizational boundaries' which arise from the restructuring following mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing and spin-offs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199268169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This in-depth exploration of the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders considers the issue of the 'organizational boundaries' which arise from the restructuring following mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing and spin-offs.