Tuesday, May 20, 2008
[IWS] JILPT: DATABOOK of INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STATISTICS 2008 [online 16 May 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
DATABOOK of INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STATISTICS 2008 [online 16 May 2008]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm
JILPT Databook of International Labour Statistics 2008 is the 12th edition of a comprehensive statistical annual from a variety of sources in different countries. The databook 2008 contains 145 tables corresponding to nine major substantive chapters on 1) economy and business; 2) population and labour force; 3) employment structure; 4) unemployment, unemployment insurance and employment adjustment; 5) wages and labour costs; 6) hours of work and working-time arrangements; 7) labour union, industrial relations and occupational accidents; 8) education and human resources development; 9) worklife and welfare. All tables are available for download in Excel and PDF format.
1 Economy and Business
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/01.htm>
-Nominal GDP
-Nominal and real GDP growth rates
-National income per capita
-Compensation of employees
-GDP by economic activity
-GDP by expenditure approach
-GDP by production approach
-National savings rates
-Industrial production indices
-Overseas production ratio, manufacturing
-Current account and trade balance
-Inward FDI flows, by host region and economy
-Outward FDI flows, by host region and economy
-Exchange rates
-Wholesale price indices
-Consumer price indices
-Purchasing power parities (PPPs)
-Comparative price levels
-Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and comparative price levels
-Labour productivity levels
-Labour share
-Average annual labour productivity growth rates, manufacturing
-Unit labour cost, manufacturing
2 Population and Labour Force
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/02.htm>
-Total population
-(Ref. Population prospects of Japan)
-Population growth rates
-Youth population, 0-14 years old
-Working age population, 15-64 years old
-Elderly population, 65 years old or over
-Population by sex and age group
-Crude birth rates and crude death rates
-Life expectancy at birth by sex
-(Ref. Japan's average life expectancy)
-Total fertility rates
-Labour force
-Population, labour force and labour force participation rates by sex and age group
-(Ref. Male labour force participation rates, 65 years old or over)
-Employment/population ratios, 15-64 years old
-Population, total employment and employment/population ratios by sex and age group
-Stock of foreign population
-Inflow of foreign workers
-Stock of foreign labour force
3 Employment Structure
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/03.htm>
-Total employment by economic activity
-Sectoral composition of employment
-Paid employment by economic activity
-Total employment by occupation and sex
-Occupational composition of employment
-Employment by professional status
-Composition of employment by professional status
-Part-time employment as a proportion of total employment
-Women's share in part-time employment
-Temporary employment as a proportion of total employment
-Temporary employment as a proportion of total employment by sex and age group
-Temporary agency workers as a propotion of total workforce
-Length of service of employees by sex and age group
-Youth's views on job changes, 18-24 years old
-The age one ought to retire from work
-Job creation rates, job destruction rates, job redistribution rates and job net increase rates
-Public employment services
-Fee-charging employment services
-Temporary employment agency services
-Measures to promote the employment of older people
-Age-based legal mechanisms including statutory retirement age
4. Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance and Employment Adjustment
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/04.htm>
-Standardised unemployment rates
-Unemployment rates (officially published national sources)
-Unemployment by age group
-Unemployment rates by age group
-Incidence of long-term unemployment among total unemployment
-Incidence of unemployment by duration
-Definitions of unemployment
-Unemployment insurance schemes
-(Ref. Supplemental unemployment assistance schemes)
-Number of persons receiving unemployment benefit
-Employment adjustment speed
-Statutory regulations or case-law principles concerning dismissal
5. Wages and Labour Costs
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/05.htm>
-Hourly wages, manufacturing (preliminary calculation)
-Wages, manufacturing
-Wages by economic activity
-Annual growth rates for hourly earnings, percentage change from previous year, manufacturing
-Earnings gap between full-time and part-time workers, female
-Labour costs, manufacturing (preliminary calculation: exchange rate conversion)
-Annual growth rates for unit labour costs, percentage change from previous year
-Annual growth rates for unit labour costs, percentage change from previous year
-Structure of labour costs as a percentage of total costs, manufacturing
-Hourly labour costs for production workers, manufacturing
-Gender wage and job tenure gap
-Gender wage gap in median earnings of full-time employees
-Wage gap by age group, manufacturing
-Wage gap by length of service, manufacturing
-Wage gap by establishment size, all industries
-Income Gini coefficient
-Income share by quintiles
-Relative poverty rates among the entire population
-Minimum wage-fixing mechanisms
-Changes in the minimum wage
6. Hours of Work and Working-time Arrangements
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/06.htm>
-Estimates of annual hours actually worked for production workers, manufacturing
-Hours of work per week, manufacturing
-Proportion of workers working long hours by gender
-Number of annual holidays
-Legal holidays
-Working-time arrangements
7. Labour Union, Industrial Relations and Occupational Accidents
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/07.htm>
-Trade union membership and density rates (national official statistics)
-Union density rates according to the ILO Union Database
-Number of labour disputes, workers involved and days not worked
-Number of workers injured due to occupational accidents and days lost
-Incidence rates of occupational accidents
-Labour dispute resolution mechanisms
8. Education and Human Resources Development
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/08.htm>
-Enrollment rates in higher education
-School system
-Participation rates in non-formal job-related education and training
-Career development and job-search assistance for youth
-Measures to tackle the youth employment challenges
-(Ref. Sub-minimum wages for youth)
9. Worklife and Welfare
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/09.htm>
-Composition of households and NPISH, resources side/uses side
-Final consumption expenditure of domestic households per capita by purpose
-Percentage distribution of final consumption expenditure of domestic households by purpose
-Household income and expenditure by age of household reference person
-Financial assets of households and NPISHs
-Percentage of respondents unable to afford food, medical and health care or clothes
-Public social expenditure by policy area, at current prices/in percentage of GDP
-Social security benefits as a percentage of national income
-Tax and social security burden as a percentage of national income
-Public expenditure on labour market programmes as a percentage of GDP
-Public pension schemes
-Corporate pension schemes
-Employer-employee social insurance contribution rates
-Public assistance systems
-Childcare leave schemes
-Financial support for childcare, including child benefits
-Childcare services (availability of childcare facilities for pre-school children)
-Employment measures for the disabled
-Main structure of daily average time use of the employed by activity group and sex
-Indicators of national power and social infrastructure
-Structure of workday time use, male
-Structure of holiday time use, male
-Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
______________________________
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----------------- 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
________________________________________________________________________
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
DATABOOK of INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STATISTICS 2008 [online 16 May 2008]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/index.htm
JILPT Databook of International Labour Statistics 2008 is the 12th edition of a comprehensive statistical annual from a variety of sources in different countries. The databook 2008 contains 145 tables corresponding to nine major substantive chapters on 1) economy and business; 2) population and labour force; 3) employment structure; 4) unemployment, unemployment insurance and employment adjustment; 5) wages and labour costs; 6) hours of work and working-time arrangements; 7) labour union, industrial relations and occupational accidents; 8) education and human resources development; 9) worklife and welfare. All tables are available for download in Excel and PDF format.
1 Economy and Business
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/01.htm>
-Nominal GDP
-Nominal and real GDP growth rates
-National income per capita
-Compensation of employees
-GDP by economic activity
-GDP by expenditure approach
-GDP by production approach
-National savings rates
-Industrial production indices
-Overseas production ratio, manufacturing
-Current account and trade balance
-Inward FDI flows, by host region and economy
-Outward FDI flows, by host region and economy
-Exchange rates
-Wholesale price indices
-Consumer price indices
-Purchasing power parities (PPPs)
-Comparative price levels
-Purchasing power parities (PPPs) and comparative price levels
-Labour productivity levels
-Labour share
-Average annual labour productivity growth rates, manufacturing
-Unit labour cost, manufacturing
2 Population and Labour Force
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/02.htm>
-Total population
-(Ref. Population prospects of Japan)
-Population growth rates
-Youth population, 0-14 years old
-Working age population, 15-64 years old
-Elderly population, 65 years old or over
-Population by sex and age group
-Crude birth rates and crude death rates
-Life expectancy at birth by sex
-(Ref. Japan's average life expectancy)
-Total fertility rates
-Labour force
-Population, labour force and labour force participation rates by sex and age group
-(Ref. Male labour force participation rates, 65 years old or over)
-Employment/population ratios, 15-64 years old
-Population, total employment and employment/population ratios by sex and age group
-Stock of foreign population
-Inflow of foreign workers
-Stock of foreign labour force
3 Employment Structure
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/03.htm>
-Total employment by economic activity
-Sectoral composition of employment
-Paid employment by economic activity
-Total employment by occupation and sex
-Occupational composition of employment
-Employment by professional status
-Composition of employment by professional status
-Part-time employment as a proportion of total employment
-Women's share in part-time employment
-Temporary employment as a proportion of total employment
-Temporary employment as a proportion of total employment by sex and age group
-Temporary agency workers as a propotion of total workforce
-Length of service of employees by sex and age group
-Youth's views on job changes, 18-24 years old
-The age one ought to retire from work
-Job creation rates, job destruction rates, job redistribution rates and job net increase rates
-Public employment services
-Fee-charging employment services
-Temporary employment agency services
-Measures to promote the employment of older people
-Age-based legal mechanisms including statutory retirement age
4. Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance and Employment Adjustment
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/04.htm>
-Standardised unemployment rates
-Unemployment rates (officially published national sources)
-Unemployment by age group
-Unemployment rates by age group
-Incidence of long-term unemployment among total unemployment
-Incidence of unemployment by duration
-Definitions of unemployment
-Unemployment insurance schemes
-(Ref. Supplemental unemployment assistance schemes)
-Number of persons receiving unemployment benefit
-Employment adjustment speed
-Statutory regulations or case-law principles concerning dismissal
5. Wages and Labour Costs
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/05.htm>
-Hourly wages, manufacturing (preliminary calculation)
-Wages, manufacturing
-Wages by economic activity
-Annual growth rates for hourly earnings, percentage change from previous year, manufacturing
-Earnings gap between full-time and part-time workers, female
-Labour costs, manufacturing (preliminary calculation: exchange rate conversion)
-Annual growth rates for unit labour costs, percentage change from previous year
-Annual growth rates for unit labour costs, percentage change from previous year
-Structure of labour costs as a percentage of total costs, manufacturing
-Hourly labour costs for production workers, manufacturing
-Gender wage and job tenure gap
-Gender wage gap in median earnings of full-time employees
-Wage gap by age group, manufacturing
-Wage gap by length of service, manufacturing
-Wage gap by establishment size, all industries
-Income Gini coefficient
-Income share by quintiles
-Relative poverty rates among the entire population
-Minimum wage-fixing mechanisms
-Changes in the minimum wage
6. Hours of Work and Working-time Arrangements
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/06.htm>
-Estimates of annual hours actually worked for production workers, manufacturing
-Hours of work per week, manufacturing
-Proportion of workers working long hours by gender
-Number of annual holidays
-Legal holidays
-Working-time arrangements
7. Labour Union, Industrial Relations and Occupational Accidents
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/07.htm>
-Trade union membership and density rates (national official statistics)
-Union density rates according to the ILO Union Database
-Number of labour disputes, workers involved and days not worked
-Number of workers injured due to occupational accidents and days lost
-Incidence rates of occupational accidents
-Labour dispute resolution mechanisms
8. Education and Human Resources Development
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/08.htm>
-Enrollment rates in higher education
-School system
-Participation rates in non-formal job-related education and training
-Career development and job-search assistance for youth
-Measures to tackle the youth employment challenges
-(Ref. Sub-minimum wages for youth)
9. Worklife and Welfare
< http://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/databook/2008/09.htm>
-Composition of households and NPISH, resources side/uses side
-Final consumption expenditure of domestic households per capita by purpose
-Percentage distribution of final consumption expenditure of domestic households by purpose
-Household income and expenditure by age of household reference person
-Financial assets of households and NPISHs
-Percentage of respondents unable to afford food, medical and health care or clothes
-Public social expenditure by policy area, at current prices/in percentage of GDP
-Social security benefits as a percentage of national income
-Tax and social security burden as a percentage of national income
-Public expenditure on labour market programmes as a percentage of GDP
-Public pension schemes
-Corporate pension schemes
-Employer-employee social insurance contribution rates
-Public assistance systems
-Childcare leave schemes
-Financial support for childcare, including child benefits
-Childcare services (availability of childcare facilities for pre-school children)
-Employment measures for the disabled
-Main structure of daily average time use of the employed by activity group and sex
-Indicators of national power and social infrastructure
-Structure of workday time use, male
-Structure of holiday time use, male
-Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
______________________________
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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