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International Symposium/Workshop |
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Workshop
on Local Employment Development
February 9-10, 2005, Tokyo
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Background
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Against the widening regional divergences
in labor market conditions which have become apparent
in the sluggish economy since 1990s, there are calls
for promoting policy decentralization and moves
to transfer authority on employment policy to regional
governments.
The JILPT, in its medium-term research,
analyses factors that create regional divergences
in the unemployment structure, and makes proposals
on industrial policy and on measures for improving
the labor market conditions. As part of this research,
it invited researchers from the EU countries, the
U.S., and the OECD to a research workshop with the
principal objective of learning from international
experience.
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| Participants
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OECD |
Sylvain
Giguère |
Deputy
Head, LEED Programme, OECD |
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EU |
Robert
Strauss |
Head of Unit,
Employment Strategy, DG Employment And Social
Affairs, European Commission |
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U.K. |
Ivan
Turok |
Professor,
University of Glasgow |
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Germany |
Hugh
Mosley |
Senior
Fellow, Social Science CenterBerlin (WZB) |
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France |
Xavier
Greffe |
Professor,
Université de Paris I, Sorbonne |
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Italy |
Claudio
Tagliaferro, |
Manager, Area
Studi Instituzionali e Normativi, ISFOL |
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Denmark |
Jan
Hendeliowitz |
Regional Director,
The Public Employment Service, Storstrøm
Region |
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U.S. |
Randall
Eberts |
Executive
Director, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment
Research |
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Kozo
Aoyama |
President,
Urban Policy Institute of New York |
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Canada |
Michèle
Fong |
Manager, Active
Employment Measures Policy, Human Research
and Skills Development, Canada |
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Japan |
Yoshio
Higuchi |
Professor,
Keio University and Senior Research Fellow,
JILPT |
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Minoru
Ito |
Research
Director, JILPT |
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Kazufumi
Yugami |
Researcher,
JILPT |
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| Papers
submitted to the Workshop and Authors
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| The following is the book containing
papers presented at the workshop with report of some
successful cases of regional employment development
in each country, which was added to the papers based
on the discussions at the workshop. |
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| Local Governance
for Promoting Employment
—Comparing the Performance of Japan and Seven
Countries—
Edited by Sylvain Giguère, Yoshio
Higuchi,
and the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
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