Japan's new inequality
Subtitle: intersection of employment reforms and welfare arrangements
By: edited by Yoshimichi Sato and Jun Imai
Edition: English ed.
Series: Stratification and inequality series -- 10.
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Victoria, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781920901400; 9781920901820
Subjects: Equality; Hours of labor; Welfare recipients; Labor
Description: After the collapse of Japan's bubble-economy in the late 1980s, a wide range of neo-liberal reforms were introduced which dramatically affected the nature of the labor market. These reforms expanded and consolidated a two-tier market, widening the gap between those who benefit from the 'company citizenship' of 'regular', long-term and secure employment conditions and those who are increasingly disadvantaged by reduced income and security in the peripheral non-regular system of casual and short-term employment. The authors of this volume use of variety of data, including the 2005 Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) survey results, to analyze the effects of labor market reforms on social mobility, social welfare, incomes as well as the policy implications for homelessness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Regular and non-regular employment as an additional duality in Japanese labor market : institutional perspectives on career mobility / Jun Imai, Yoshimichi Sato; title: 2. The limit of equality by 'company citizenship' : politics of labor market segmentation in the case of regular and non-regular employment in Japan / Jun Imai; title: 3. Income inequality between standard and nonstandard employment in Japan, Korea and Taiwan / Hiroshi Tarohmaru; title: 4. Gender inequality in the workplace in Japan / Marcus Rebick; title: 5. Structural change and inter/intra-generational mobility in self-employment / Shin Arita; title: 6. Impact of change in household composition on poverty and inequality in Japan / Hiroshi Hamada, Yusuke Hayashi; title: 7. Homelessness in Japan : corporate welfare limits in an aging society / David-Antoine Malinas.