The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies (Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi)
Back Number 2007

December 2007 (No.569) Worker Affected by the Generation
The Never Ending Ice-age: A Review of Cohort Effects in Japan

Souichi Ota
Yuji Genda
Ayako Kondo

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Lives of Hinoeuma (Fiery Horse) Generation: Evidence from the Statistics Hideo Akabayashi
Birthday, Test Scores and Educational Attainment Daiji Kawaguchi &
Hiroaki Mori
Types of Occupational Carrier and the Effects on Employment Status of ‶the Baby
Boom Generation"
Ma Xin Xin
Nov. 2007 (No.568) Special Issue for the Refereed Abstracts in 2007
Factors Determining the Length of Increasing Periods in Human Capital Koji Yoneda (PDF:38KB)
Union and Exit Rates Mitsunori Todate
Influence of Utilizing Part-time Workers as Regular Workers on Satisfaction with Pay: From Perspective of Organizational Justice Tomoyuki Shimanuki
The Part-time/Full-time Wage Gap and the Role of the Regional Minimum Wage in Japan: 1990-2001 Yukiko Abe
October 2007 (No.567) The Change of Recruitment
The Change of Companies' Recruitment Employment Behavior after the Economic
Recovery
Hitoshi Nagano (PDF:36KB)
Measuring Efficiency of Matching and an  Incentive to Search through the Public Employment Agency in Japan Masaru Sasaki
Recruitment Methods that can reduce urnover caused by Entry-stage Mismatches between Individual Job Wants and Organizational Climates: The RJP Approach Satoko Hotta
Economic Backgrounds of Non-employed Youths in Japan Yuji Genda
September 2007 (No.566) The Border between the 'Employee' and the 'Independent Worker'
Actual Conditions and Perspectives of Individual Outside Contractors in  Japan: Focusing on Independent Contractors in Comparison with the U. S. Situation Hisashi Yamada (PDF:41KB)
Influence of Temporary Worker Human Resource Management on Work Motivation Tomoyuki Shimanuki
Legal Concept of Workers and Incomplete Contract Theory: Why should Workers
be Protected?
Kyota Eguchi
Interpretation and Legislative Policy on the Concept of 'Employee' in Labour Protection Laws Hirokuni Ikezoe
The Concept of  'Worker', Diversification, and Labour Policy Yutaka Asao
August 2007 (No.565) SPECIAL ISSUE Labour Ethics
Person-oriented Thinking and Occupational Self-Esteem as Potential Correlates of Occupational Misconduct Koichi Eugene Okamoto (PDF:36KB)
Scientists and Engineers' Occupational Community and Organizations: Their Partial Inclusion and Role Conflict in Organization
In-Seok Chae
CSR and Trade Unions Kayo Goto
Who Gives Support to Shareholder-oriented Management? Koji Takahashi
July 2007 (No.564) Reccent Changes of Fringe Benefits
The Current State and the Future Direction of Fringe Benefits Koji Nishikubo (PDF:35KB)
Economic Analysis of Fringe Benefits Souichi Ota
Labour Law Problems involved in Fringe Benefits Takayasu Yanagiya
The Problems of Measures including Shortening of Working Hours for Childcare Shingou Ikeda
June 2007 (No.563) Does History Repeat Itself?
An Empirical Analysis on Poverty and Labour in Japan Tosiaki Tachibanaki (PDF:45KB)
Poverty in Japan : The Increasing Working Poor Yuki Sekine
On the Regional Differences in Minimum Wages and Welfare Benefits in Japan

Yukiko Abe

Keiko Tamada

The Reform of Social Assistance for Working Poor Kohei Komamura
Working, Health, and Independent Support Program in Relating to Japan's Homeless People Wataru Suzuki
An Empirical Study of Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty: From the Viewpoint of Income Mobility

Yoshimichi Sato

Takashi Yoshida

Private Sector Training in Japan between 1970s and 2000s Hiromi Hara
May 2007 (No.562) Another Labour Problem
Population Stagnation and the Fertility Increase Law of the Nihonmatsu Domain in the Tokugawa Period Miyuki Takahashi (PDF:57KB)
The Over seas Operations of Japanese Manufacturing Multinationals during the Inter-war Years: Naigaiwata & Co. in China Tetsuya Kuwahara
Income Distribution in Japan: Retrospect for Prewar and Postwar Periods Ryoshin Minami
The Activities and the Motives of the Propertied Class before the World War II Masayuki Tanimoto
On Employment Status: The Formation of Single Status in Japanese Industrial Relations and Even Treatment Noriko Hisamoto
Two-layer Wage System Tateshi Mori
The Making of the CIO: A Conflict of the Organizing Principle Hideyo Naganuma
The Problem of Korean Immigrant Workers in the Japanese Empire: Arguments and Policies Masaru Tonomura
Instructions in Present Day of Studying on the History of the Factory Act enacted in 1911 Akira Watanabe
Negotiation Process to Attainment of Single Status in Japanese Industrial Relations: An Analysis of Materials of Joint Management Council (1945-1947)

Chiaki Nagumo

Osamu Umezaki

April 2007 (No.561) Another Labour Problem
An Empirical Analysis of Promotional and Career Development System of White Collar Workers in a Large Japanese Company Katsuhito Uehara (PDF:27KB)
The Role of Law as to the Allocation of Interest concerning Employee Inventions: An Analysis of the Employee Invention System in the United States and Suggestions for the Remuneration Decision
Process
Takeo Sakai
February-March 2007 (No.559) Special Issue for the Refereed Abstracts in 2007
What Makes Re-started Entrepreneurs Succeed? Atsushi Kawakami (PDF:26KB)
Steel Production Plant Shop Floor Worker Management Skills: The Accomplishment of Management Work and the Characteristics of Management Skills Masaki Tanaka
A Reconsideration of Strategic Human Resource Management Takuma Kimura
January 2007 (No.558) Happness in Work
Working Condition and Happiness

Shinpei Sano

Fumio Ohtake

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Analysis of Work Needs among Elderly Workers Sayaka Fukushima
To Create a Comfortable Working Environment Fumiko Obata
Recent Trendsin Occupational Mental Health in Japan and a Stress Prevention Practice Focusing on Stress Coping

Yasumasa Otsuka

Ayako Suzuki

Misato Takada

Burnout as Occupational Stress among Human Service Workers Makoto Kudo
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