Japan Labor Review : Volume 5, 2008

No. 1 Winter 2008 (Full Text PDF:3.9MB)

Special Edition  Regional Employment

• Introduction (PDF:95KB)
  Souichi Ohta

Articles

• Circumstances behind Growing Regional Disparities in Employment (PDF:324KB)
  Yoshio Higuchi
• Community Based Economic Renaissance and Job Creation in Japan (PDF:244KB)
  Takeo Kikkawa
• A Convergence Analysis on the Efficiency of Public Job Placement Services in Japan (PDF:449KB)
  Yanfei Zhou
• Measures for Supporting Regional Job Creation in Japan (PDF:282KB)
  Minoru Ito
• Job Creation by Local Initiatives: Effects of Special Zones for Structural Reform (PDF:253KB)
  Kazufumi Yugami
• Present Situation and Issues of Municipal Employment Strategy (PDF:1.1MB)
  Hiroaki Watanabe

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• JILPT Research Activities (PDF:106KB)

No. 2 Spring 2008 (Full Text PDF:1.8MB)

Special Edition  Employement of Older Persons

• Introduction (PDF:124KB)
  Sumiko Ebisuno

Articles

• Mandatory Retirement of Baby Boomers and Human Resource Strategies of Business Firms (1.6MB)
  Naoki Mitani
• Prospects of Employment and LIfe Design of Dankai No Sedai, or the Japanese
  Baby-Boom Generation (PDF:1.2MB)
  Atsushi Sato
• Employment of Older People after the Amendment of the Act Concerning Stabilization of Employment of Older Persons: Current State of Affairs and Challenges (PDF:937KB)
  Makoto Fujimoto
• Does Skill-Development Make Elderly Japanese More Marketable? (PDF:745KB)
  Shinya Kajitani

Article Based on Research Reports

• Labor-Management Communication and Labor Condition Determination in Small-and-Medium-Sized Enterprises (PDF:1.5MB)
  Oh Hak-Soo
• Current State of Career Education in Japan and Parents' Cognitions (PDF:284KB)
  Hideo Shimomura
• The Development of a System for Preparing and Analyzing Transcripts on Vocational Counseling and Job Introduction (PDF:2.1MB)
  Jun Kayano

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• JILPT Research Activities (PDF:132KB)

No. 3 Summer 2008 (Full Text PDF:1.2MB)

Special Edition  Treatment of Professionals

• Introduction (PDF:35.5KB)
  Atsushi Sato

Articles

• Changes in Human Resource Management with the Transformation of Technology Management Strategy (PDF:807KB)
  Masanobu Fukutani
• Mobility of R&D Workers and Technological Performance (PDF:208KB)
  Yaichi Aoshima
• Employment Systems and Social Relativity from the Perspective of Pay and Benefits for Science and Technology Researchers and Engineers (PDF:117KB)
  Masayo Fujimoto
• Scientists and Engineers' Occupational Community and Organizations: Their Partical Inclusion and Role Conflict in Organization (PDF:160KB)
  Chae In-Seok

Article Based on Research Report

• Trends in Structural and Frictional Unemploymen (PDF:255KB)
  Hirokazu Fujii

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• JILPT Research Activities (PDF:18.9KB)

No. 4 Autumn 2008 (Full Text PDF:1.6MB)

Special Edition  Disparity, Poverty and Labor

• Introduction (PDF:90KB)
  Reiko Kosugi

Articles

• Income Distribution of Japan: Historical Perspective and Its Implications (PDF:219KB)
  Ryoshin Minami
• Trends in Poverty among Low-income Workers in Japan since the Nineties (PDF:352KB)
  Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Kunio Urakawa
• The Rise of Poverty in Japan: The Emergence of the Working Poor (PDF:199KB)
  Yuki Sekine
• The Working Poor, Borderline Poor, and Developments in Public Assistance Reform (PDF:436KB)
  Kohei Komamura
• An Empirical Study of Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty from the Perspective of Income Mobility (PDF:299KB)
  Yoshimichi Sato, Takashi Yoshida

Article Based on Research Report

• Dispute Resolution Systems in the Workplace: A Study Relating to Their Establishement and Support (PDF:518KB)
  Akio Kihara

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• JILPT Research Activities (PDF:19KB)

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