Labour Market Liberalisation after the Lehman Crisis:
France, Germany and Japan in Comparative Perspective
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo
Workshop Programme

Friday, December 14th
9:45 – 10:00

Welcome10:00 - 12:00

Panel 1: Changes in Public Sentiment and their Implications for Labour Market Policy
Chair: Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
When Voters Favour the Social Investment Welfare StateMarc Brazzill and Hideko Magara, Waseda University, Yuki Yanai, Kochi Institute ofTechnology
Solidarity and Self-Interest Theories: Testing Segmentation and Social Welfare
Preferences in France, Germany, Japan and South Korea
Nate Breznau, University of Bremen
Labour Market Dualisation, Inequality Aversion and Policy ChangePaul Marx, University of Duisburg-Essen
The Change in Labour Market Policy Preferences in Germany, Japan and Taiwan before
and after the 2008 Financial Crisis
Chung-Yang Yeh, Soochow University

12:00-13:30

Lunch breakSupported By

13:30-15:30

Panel 2: Post-Lehman Labour Policy: Priority on Economic Growth or Social
Protection?
Chair: tbd
Contesting the ‘Liberal Pensée Unique’? In-Work Benefits in France and Germany
before and after the Crash
Daniel Clegg and Jochen Clasen, University of EdinburghStill on the Path of Liberalisation? Reforms of Non-Standard Work in Germany andJapan after the Lehman Crash
Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Economic Growth through Social Protection? Tentative Analysis on the Nature of PM
Abe’s Work Style Reform
Shinji Kojima, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Changing Discourses on Labour Market Inequalities after the Lehman Crisis in Japan
Machiko Osawa, Japan’s Women University

15:30-15:45

Coffee break

15:45-17:45

Panel 3: How Have Corporate Practices and Industrial Relations Changed?
Chair: Werner Pascha, University of Duisburg-Essen
Agency Work and Subcontracting in German Core Sectors: (How) Can Collective
Bargaining Stop the Casualisation of Work?
Chiara Benassi, King’s College London
The Role of Labour Flexibility in the Pursuit of Innovation Strategies by EstablishedJapanese Companies
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, University of Tsukuba
From Structure to Strategy: The Changing Role of Corporatism in German LabourMarket Policies
Florian Spohr, University of Bochum
Japan's Gender-Labour Dilemma - an Institutional Political Analysis
Midori Wakamori and Charles Weathers, Osaka City University2

17:45-18:00

Coffee break

18:00-19:30

Public Roundtable: Labour Politics after the Global Financial Crisis: French, German
and Japanese Perspectives
Bruno Amable, University of Geneva
Paul Marx, University of Duisburg-Essen
Mari Miura, Sophia University

19:30

Buffet reception

Day 2 – Saturday, December 15th
10:00-12:00

Panel 4: Changing Growth Models and their Social and Political Implications
Chair: Mari Yamauchi, Doshisha University
Contesting Growth Models: Social Movements in Comparative Political Economy
Saori Shibata, University of Leiden
Japanese Labour and Social Policy between TPP and the Crisis of the Global Liberal
Order
Yves Tiberghien, University of British Columbia
Automation, Wage Inequality, and the Moderating Role of Labour Market Institutions:
Evidence from 21 OECD Member States
Zach Parolin, University of Antwerp
Japan’s ‘Work-Style’ Reform: Deregulatory and Worker-Protective Policies as an
Economic Growth Strategy
Hiroaki Watanabe, University of Sheffield

12:00-13:30

Lunch break3

13:30-15:30

Panel 5: Labour Markets and Institutional Change
Chair: Sebastien Lechevalier, EHESS
French Employment Policy and Labour Market Reforms, the Political Economy of a
Neoliberal Transformation.
Bruno Amable, University of Geneva
Non-Standard Work and Labour Market Segmentation: Institutional Change andOccupational Shifts
Werner Eichhorst, IZA and University of Bremen, and Verena Tobsch, INES Berlin
Logics of Liberalisation under Non-Liberal Capitalism: Japan’s, France’s and Germany’s
Trajectories Compared
Stefan Heeb, University of Geneva“Pernicious Institutional Complementarity” and the Politics of Welfare and Labour
Reform in Japan
Takaaki Suzuki, Ohio University

15:30-15:45

Coffee break

15:45-16:30

Wrap-Up and Discussion of Publication Project

16:30

End of workshop

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