Thursday, September 15, 2005
[IWS] JILPT: JAPAN LABOR SITUATION & ANALYSIS 2005/2006 [July 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
Labor Situation in Japan and Analysis : Detailed Exposition 2005/2006 [July 2005]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/20052006LaborSituation.pdf
[full-text, 57 pages]
[excerpt]
...this 2005/2006 issue provides detailed exposition, and offers recent write-ups by researchers of the Institute dealing mainly with important labor issues. It does not provide an exhaustive account of the labor situation.
The book takes up specific topics and introduces recent trends concerning these as well as the relevant analyses, but does not present any one uniform theme as a whole. Consequently, it has been compiled with the intention that the reader will use it together with the 2004/2005 edition < http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/situation2004.htm >
CONTENTS
1 Considering the Responses to Freeter and Jobless Youth Issues 2
2 The Balance between Work and Child Care 10
3 The Results-based Principle 16
4 Unpaid Overtime Work 18
5 Discretionary Labor System 19
6 Mental Wellness 20
7 New Endeavors at Labor Unions 21
8 Short-term Regular Employees 22
9 Temp-to-hire Placement 24
10 Succession of Labor Contracts 26
11 Resolving Individual Labor and Management Disputes 28
12 Work-Sharing 30
13 Obstacles for Popularizing Internships 31
14 The Japanese Dual System 32
15 Measures for Employing Older People 34
16 Employment for the Disabled 36
17 Management Strategies 38
18 An Overview of the Worker Dispatching System in Japan 39
19 Current Status and Characteristics of Dispatched Workers in Japan 42
20 Human Resource Management at Overseas Japanese Companies 45
21 Salient Features of Labor-Management Relations,
Personnel and Labor Management, and Labor Conditions
in Foreign Companies in Japan 48
Contributing Authors 51
TABLES & FIGURES
1-1 Freeter ratios by gender, age, and academic backgrounds 3
1-2 Unemployment rate by gender, age and academic backgrounds of young people 4
1-3 Reasons for becoming freeters (multiple answers) 5
1-4 What was felt through freeter experiences by freeter types (multiple answers) 6
1-5 Definitions used in Labor Force Survey and where Jobless Youth fall into 7
2-1 Transitions in households by working condition of couples 10
2-2 Working circumstances of mothers with one sibling (just self) 13
2-3 Transitions in maximum day care center numbers and numbers of children going to day care 15
3-1 Individual goals emphasized as part of goal management (multiple answers) 17
4-1 Unpaid overtime time analysis panel and average hours 18
5-1 Employment rate for the discretionary labor system 19
6-1 Comparison of awareness towards stress and job by age 20
8-1 Possibilities for considering a future short-term regular employee system (businesses establishments) 23
9-1 The policy of companies related to utilizing dispatched workers
and the temp-to-hire placements (the number of responded companies; 304) 25
10-1 Image diagram representing corporate reorganization 27
11-1 Shift in the number of consultations 29
11-2 Breakdown of consultations for civil individual labor and management disputes 29
12-1 The transitions between life stages in the diversified employment scheme society 30
13-1 Situation of internship practices in colleges 31
14-1 Basic working methods of the Japanese Dual System 33
15-1 Future work life pattern for elderly 35
16-1 The number of workers with disabilities and percentages of companies
which have not attained statutory employment rate, by size of private companies 37
18-1 Period of dispatch by type of occupation 40
19-1 Ratio of dispatched workers to all employees, and Ratio of businesses
establishments hiring dispatched workers among the main industries 43
20-1 Reasons why Japanese companies advance to foreign countries 46
21-1 Attitudes towards personnel and labor management 49
21-2 Problems related to administration and personnel management 50
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
Labor Situation in Japan and Analysis : Detailed Exposition 2005/2006 [July 2005]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/20052006LaborSituation.pdf
[full-text, 57 pages]
[excerpt]
...this 2005/2006 issue provides detailed exposition, and offers recent write-ups by researchers of the Institute dealing mainly with important labor issues. It does not provide an exhaustive account of the labor situation.
The book takes up specific topics and introduces recent trends concerning these as well as the relevant analyses, but does not present any one uniform theme as a whole. Consequently, it has been compiled with the intention that the reader will use it together with the 2004/2005 edition < http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/situation2004.htm >
CONTENTS
1 Considering the Responses to Freeter and Jobless Youth Issues 2
2 The Balance between Work and Child Care 10
3 The Results-based Principle 16
4 Unpaid Overtime Work 18
5 Discretionary Labor System 19
6 Mental Wellness 20
7 New Endeavors at Labor Unions 21
8 Short-term Regular Employees 22
9 Temp-to-hire Placement 24
10 Succession of Labor Contracts 26
11 Resolving Individual Labor and Management Disputes 28
12 Work-Sharing 30
13 Obstacles for Popularizing Internships 31
14 The Japanese Dual System 32
15 Measures for Employing Older People 34
16 Employment for the Disabled 36
17 Management Strategies 38
18 An Overview of the Worker Dispatching System in Japan 39
19 Current Status and Characteristics of Dispatched Workers in Japan 42
20 Human Resource Management at Overseas Japanese Companies 45
21 Salient Features of Labor-Management Relations,
Personnel and Labor Management, and Labor Conditions
in Foreign Companies in Japan 48
Contributing Authors 51
TABLES & FIGURES
1-1 Freeter ratios by gender, age, and academic backgrounds 3
1-2 Unemployment rate by gender, age and academic backgrounds of young people 4
1-3 Reasons for becoming freeters (multiple answers) 5
1-4 What was felt through freeter experiences by freeter types (multiple answers) 6
1-5 Definitions used in Labor Force Survey and where Jobless Youth fall into 7
2-1 Transitions in households by working condition of couples 10
2-2 Working circumstances of mothers with one sibling (just self) 13
2-3 Transitions in maximum day care center numbers and numbers of children going to day care 15
3-1 Individual goals emphasized as part of goal management (multiple answers) 17
4-1 Unpaid overtime time analysis panel and average hours 18
5-1 Employment rate for the discretionary labor system 19
6-1 Comparison of awareness towards stress and job by age 20
8-1 Possibilities for considering a future short-term regular employee system (businesses establishments) 23
9-1 The policy of companies related to utilizing dispatched workers
and the temp-to-hire placements (the number of responded companies; 304) 25
10-1 Image diagram representing corporate reorganization 27
11-1 Shift in the number of consultations 29
11-2 Breakdown of consultations for civil individual labor and management disputes 29
12-1 The transitions between life stages in the diversified employment scheme society 30
13-1 Situation of internship practices in colleges 31
14-1 Basic working methods of the Japanese Dual System 33
15-1 Future work life pattern for elderly 35
16-1 The number of workers with disabilities and percentages of companies
which have not attained statutory employment rate, by size of private companies 37
18-1 Period of dispatch by type of occupation 40
19-1 Ratio of dispatched workers to all employees, and Ratio of businesses
establishments hiring dispatched workers among the main industries 43
20-1 Reasons why Japanese companies advance to foreign countries 46
21-1 Attitudes towards personnel and labor management 49
21-2 Problems related to administration and personnel management 50
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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