# Toward smooth labour turnovers

Many people with relatively low income and high income have changed their job more than twice. Many of those with high income said that they want to change jobs because "they would like to use their knowledge and skills."

There is a tendency that people who carry out self-development earn high income.

(The ratio of workers who have changed their job more than twice from the first job by annual income level)

Source:

Compiled independently by the Office of Counselor for Labour Policy, MHLW, from questionnaire data of the "Basic Statistical Survey on Employment Structure" (2012) Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

(Note)

1) "Workers who have changed their job more than twice from the first job" are those whose first job is not the current or previous job.

2) Figures of executives or staff and employees of regular employment

(Breakdown of reasons why people who wish to change job by annual income)

Source: Compiled independently by the Office of Counselor for Labour Policy, MHLW, from questionnaire data of the "Basic Statistical Survey on Employment Structure" (2012) Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

(Note) Figures of executives or staff and employees of regular employment aged 30 or older and younger than 55.

(Annual income distribution by presence or absence of self-development in the past year)

Source: Compiled independently by the Office of Counselor for Labour Policy, MHLW, questionnaire data of the “Basic Statistical Survey on Employment Structure” (2012) Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Note) Figures of executives or staff and employees of regular employment aged 30 or older and younger than 55.

Looking at the ratio of people who have changed job more than twice by annual income, in general, the ratio of those with an annual income of less than 5 million yen and those with a high annual income of more than 15 million yen is high. Looking at the breakdown of reasons why people who wish to change jobs by annual income, many of those whose annual income is high answered the reason is because "they would like to use their knowledge and skills," which implies that people with high income change jobs with positive reasons.

Looking at the distribution of regular workers' annual income by the presence or absence of self-development in the past year, many workers who work on self-development gain a higher annual income. This implies that it is important to implement continuous self-development in order to gain a high personal treatment. Looking at the implementation rate of self-development by presence or absence of desire to change jobs, those with relatively high annual income who wish to change jobs implement more self-development. This shows that it is necessary to put efforts on self-development if one wishes to change jobs while retaining a high personal treatment. On the other hand, people with lower income are likely to have fewer opportunities of necessary self-development due to insufficient finance.

In order to promote smooth labour turnovers, it is important to strengthen the labour market infrastructure in a strategic manner by improving public support for public vocational training and workers' self-development and providing transparency to workers' occupational abilities.