Japanese Lifetime Employment Revisited
Author : Harold Oaklander
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Job security
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Author : Harold Oaklander
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Job security
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Author : John C. & Martha N. Beck
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824815295
"This book documents the changes in Japanese employment structures, behavior patterns, and attitudes that indicate that lifetime employment was not 'an indestructible bastion of Japanese cultural heritage.' ... Readable and refreshingly free of jargon." --Asiaweek
Author : Toshiko Tsukaguchi-le Grand
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Age and employment
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Author : Momtaz Uddin Ahmed
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Labor supply
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Author : Ronald J. Gilson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2008
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In Japan, large firms' relationships with their employees differ from those prevailing in large American firms. Large Japanese firms guarantee many employees lifetime employment, and the firms' boards consist of insider employees. Neither relationship is common in the United States. Japanese lifetime employment is said to encourage firms and employees to invest in human capital. We examine the reported benefits of the firm's promise of lifetime employment, but conclude that it is no more than peripheral to human capital investments. Rather, the 'dark' side of Japanese labor practice--constricting the external labor market--likely yielded the human capital benefits, not the 'bright' side of secure employment. What then explains the firm's promises of lifetime employment in Japan, a practice that developed following World War II, when labor was in surplus, and hence economically weak? We hypothesize two political explanations, one 'macro' and one 'micro.' The 'macro' hypothesis is that a coalition of conservative and managerial interests sought lifetime employment to reduce the chances of socialist electoral victories. The 'micro' hypothesis is that managers tried to defeat hostile unions and win back factories from worker occupation, firm-by-firm, by offering lifetime employment to a core of workers. Neither the 'macro' nor the 'micro' goals were intended to improve human capital training, but rather to reduce worker influence, either in elections or in the factory. We assess the evidence for these hypotheses. We look at Japanese labor practices and related corporate governance institutions as 'path dependent': A political decision 'fixes' one institution and then the system evolves in light of that fixed institution by developing efficient complementary institutions.
Author : David Chiavacci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429884559
During the last 30 years, the Japanese political economy system has experienced significant changes that are usually not well understood or analysed because of their complexity and contradictions. This book provides new analyses and insights on the process of evolving Japanese political economy including Japan’s current economic policy known as Abenomics. The first three chapters looks at evolutions at the corporate level, characterised in recent years by increasing firm heterogeneity. The authors apply theoretically driven analyses to the complex subject of corporate governance, human resource management and corporate reporting by discussing new developments in context of their economic opportunities as well as of their institutional contradictions with continuities in Japanese business practices. The second group of chapters deals with institutional changes and evolving economic reforms on the macro level of political economy. The two chapters focus on the financial system regulation and economic growth policies as two central elements of Japan’s political economy and key drivers in the evolution of its economy. Their analysis allows us to better understand the interplay between reforms and change in consumption credit and to reinterpret Abenomics as a manifestation of ongoing contradictions within the Japanese political economy. The chapters were originally published in a special issue in Japan Forum.
Author : Takao Kato
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Chukiat Pinthanon
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Japanese
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Author : David W. Plath
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1438416229
The durability of Japan's industrial products now holds world acclaim. But the durability of jobs in Japan—despite misleading Western images of lifetime employment—is no better than in other industrial nations. The "group model" of Japanese society that has been in fashion in the West confuses the goals of an organization with the personal aims and aspirations of its members. Like workers anywhere, those in Japan must go through life reconciling their duties to the job with their often conflicting obligations to family, to community, and to self-respect. Career outcomes are anything but certain in Japan—once we see them from a worker's point of view. Work and Lifecourse in Japan is a collection of workers' eye-level reports on career development in a variety of Japanese organizations and professions. In addition, there are overview chapters on employment trends in the Japanese economy, and on the problems of scheduling one's life-events in the demanding milieu of our post-industrial world.
Author : Hiroshi Kawamura
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 1994
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