Tuesday, July 14, 2009
[IWS] JILPT (JAPAN): WORKING TIME -- 2009 PAPERS from INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR [online 10 July 2009]
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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Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT_)
2009 JILPT International Seminar on Working Time [online 10 July 2009]
"Working Time --In Search of New Research Territories Beyond Flexibility Debates--
January 21-23, 2009
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/events_and_information/09_0121_report.htm
JILPT organized the International Seminar on Working Time in January, 2009, a two-day seminar with a closed workshop and an open forum in order to learn from the experiences of each participating country and to draw some policy implications through cross-national discussion and comparative analyses. As the theme of the seminar indicates, this time we took up broader issues beyond flexible working hours, for example: work-life balance, gender gap, growing atypical employment, and long and excessive working time.
The papers presented in the workshop are compiled as JILPT Report No.7.
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7.pdf
[full-text, 101 pages]
Coordinator
Hiromasa Suzuki Professor, School of Commerce
Waseda University
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_intro.pdf
Discussants <in order of presentation>
François Michon Directeur de Recherches
CNRSUniversité de Paris 1 and IRES-France
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_michon.pdf
Gerhard Bosh Exective Director, the Institute for Work, Skills and Training, Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Duisburg-Essen
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_bosch.pdf
Colette Fagan
Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_fagan.pdf
Dominique Anxo
Professor in Labour Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics
Växjö University
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_anxo.pdf
Samuel Rosenberg Professor of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
Roosevelt University
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_rosenberg.pdf
Kazuya Ogura
Senior Researcher, Department of Working Environment and Work Life Balance, JILPT
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_ogura.pdf
Program of the Workshop
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/No.7_program.pdf
Foreword
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) held the International
Seminar on Working Time from January 21st to 23rd, 2009 in Tokyo. We planned a two-day
seminar with a preliminary meeting, a closed workshop with mostly academic participants,
and an open forum in order to learn from the experiences of each participating country. The
detailed theme of the seminar was ..Working Time..In Search of New Research Territories
beyond Flexibility Debates... JILPT took up broader issues beyond flexible working hours, for
example: work-life balance, gender gap, growing atypical employment, and long and
excessive working time. The seminar brought together international scholars from France,
Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as from Japan to
conduct cross-national discussion and comparative analyses on the above theme.
In Japan, working time has entered the spotlight as an aspect of ..work-sharing.. since the
beginning of 2009. In January, trade unions and employers.. federations agreed to discuss
work-sharing because of the effect of the global financial crisis after October 2008. The
working time issue is also related with some of JILPT..s research projects, such as ..Research
and Study of the Development of Social Systems and Employment Environments for Work-
Life Balance... Our research projects have been set for a five-year term from April 2007;
JILPT are carrying out them substantially.
We believe the seminar was a great success, with much thought-provoking discussion
and insight into the similarities and differences of the working time issues of each country
from a comparative aspect.
This report is a compilation of the papers presented to the workshop. The substance of
these papers and the result of the discussion will be published in the final reports of our
research projects. We very much hope that these reports will provide useful and up-to-date
information and also benefit those who are interested in comparative study of the issue.
Lastly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the foreign guests at the
workshop, who submitted excellent national papers. We are especially grateful to Professor
Hiromasa Suzuki of Waseda University, and Professor François Michon, Research Director at
CNRS, for their efforts to coordinate and to implement the seminar successfully.
June 2009
Takeshi Inagami
President
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
______________________________
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_)
2009 JILPT International Seminar on Working Time [online 10 July 2009]
"Working Time --In Search of New Research Territories Beyond Flexibility Debates--
January 21-23, 2009
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/events_and_information/09_0121_report.htm
JILPT organized the International Seminar on Working Time in January, 2009, a two-day seminar with a closed workshop and an open forum in order to learn from the experiences of each participating country and to draw some policy implications through cross-national discussion and comparative analyses. As the theme of the seminar indicates, this time we took up broader issues beyond flexible working hours, for example: work-life balance, gender gap, growing atypical employment, and long and excessive working time.
The papers presented in the workshop are compiled as JILPT Report No.7.
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7.pdf
[full-text, 101 pages]
Coordinator
Hiromasa Suzuki Professor, School of Commerce
Waseda University
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_intro.pdf
Discussants <in order of presentation>
François Michon Directeur de Recherches
CNRSUniversité de Paris 1 and IRES-France
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_michon.pdf
Gerhard Bosh Exective Director, the Institute for Work, Skills and Training, Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Duisburg-Essen
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_bosch.pdf
Colette Fagan
Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_fagan.pdf
Dominique Anxo
Professor in Labour Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics
Växjö University
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_anxo.pdf
Samuel Rosenberg Professor of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
Roosevelt University
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_rosenberg.pdf
Kazuya Ogura
Senior Researcher, Department of Working Environment and Work Life Balance, JILPT
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/no.7_ogura.pdf
Program of the Workshop
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/reports/documents/jilpt-reports/No.7_program.pdf
Foreword
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) held the International
Seminar on Working Time from January 21st to 23rd, 2009 in Tokyo. We planned a two-day
seminar with a preliminary meeting, a closed workshop with mostly academic participants,
and an open forum in order to learn from the experiences of each participating country. The
detailed theme of the seminar was ..Working Time..In Search of New Research Territories
beyond Flexibility Debates... JILPT took up broader issues beyond flexible working hours, for
example: work-life balance, gender gap, growing atypical employment, and long and
excessive working time. The seminar brought together international scholars from France,
Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as from Japan to
conduct cross-national discussion and comparative analyses on the above theme.
In Japan, working time has entered the spotlight as an aspect of ..work-sharing.. since the
beginning of 2009. In January, trade unions and employers.. federations agreed to discuss
work-sharing because of the effect of the global financial crisis after October 2008. The
working time issue is also related with some of JILPT..s research projects, such as ..Research
and Study of the Development of Social Systems and Employment Environments for Work-
Life Balance... Our research projects have been set for a five-year term from April 2007;
JILPT are carrying out them substantially.
We believe the seminar was a great success, with much thought-provoking discussion
and insight into the similarities and differences of the working time issues of each country
from a comparative aspect.
This report is a compilation of the papers presented to the workshop. The substance of
these papers and the result of the discussion will be published in the final reports of our
research projects. We very much hope that these reports will provide useful and up-to-date
information and also benefit those who are interested in comparative study of the issue.
Lastly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the foreign guests at the
workshop, who submitted excellent national papers. We are especially grateful to Professor
Hiromasa Suzuki of Waseda University, and Professor François Michon, Research Director at
CNRS, for their efforts to coordinate and to implement the seminar successfully.
June 2009
Takeshi Inagami
President
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
______________________________
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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