Analysis of Labor Markets in Postwar Japan

From the Viewpoint of Job Mobility

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9952016
AutoresTsutomu Watanabe (0000-0002-9582-4656, autor correspondente), Yoshimichi Sato (0000-0001-8732-9308)
Ano2000
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas3-33
Data de publicação2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7659 • E-ISSN: 1557-9336
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15579336.2000.11770213
OpenAlexW2511225417
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2

Extraordinary economic growth in postwar Japan has changed all aspects of Japanese people’s lives, especially job mobility and the labor markets. It would be impossible to understand the changes in job mobility without understanding what Japanese society has experienced since the end of World War II. In this article, we study how the labor markets have changed as a result of changes in job mobility and the postwar Japanese economy. Our analysis yields the following findings: patterns of job mobility are mainly determined by age, but they are also influenced by the lifetime employment system, the dual structure of the labor markets, and industrial structure. In particular, we observe that the dual structure of the labor markets has become stronger

Dual (grammatical number · Economics · First world war · Labor mobility · Labour economics · Occupational mobility · Political science · World War II · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy