International Symposium/Workshop

Workshop on Local Employment Development
February 9-10, 2005, Tokyo

Background

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.

Participants (Discussant)

OECD	Sylvain Giguère	Deputy Head, LEED Programme, OECD
EU	Robert Strauss	Head of Unit, Employment Strategy, DG Employment And Social Affairs, European Commission
U.K.	Ivan Turok	Professor, University of Glasgow
Germany	Hugh Mosley	Senior Fellow, Social Science CenterBerlin (WZB)
France	Xavier Greffe	Professor, Université de Paris I, Sorbonne
Italy	Claudio Tagliaferro,	Manager, Area Studi Instituzionali e Normativi, ISFOL
Denmark	Jan Hendeliowitz	Regional Director, The Public Employment Service, Storstrøm Region
U.S.	Randall Eberts	Executive Director, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
	Kozo Aoyama	President, Urban Policy Institute of New York
Canada	Michèle Fong	Manager, Active Employment Measures Policy, Human Research and Skills Development, Canada
Japan	Yoshio Higuchi	Professor, Keio University and Senior Research Fellow, JILPT
	Minoru Ito	Research Director, JILPT
	Kazufumi Yugami	Researcher, JILPT

Papers submitted to the Workshop and Authors

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.

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

Preface(26KB)
Chapter 1 (54KB)	Sylvain Giguère and Yoshio Higuchi	Local Governance for Promoting Economic and Employment Development
Chapter 2 (176KB)	Yoshio Higuchi (Japan)	The Reasons Why Japan's Local Communities Need Employment Strategies
Chapter 3 (116KB)	Sylvain Giguère (OECD)	Local Employment Development, Decentralisation, Governance and the Role of Government
Chapter 4 (123KB)	Robert Strauss (EU)	The Local Dimension of the European Employment Strategy
Chapter 5 (158KB)	Xavier Greffe (France)	Local Employment Development: The French Model
Chapter 6 (134KB)	Ivan Turok (U.K.)	Local Employment Measures in the U.K.: Overview and Assessment
Chapter 7 (138KB)	Randall W. Eberts (U.S.)	Overview of State and Local Economic Development Policies and Practice in the United States
Chapter 8 (142KB)	Kozo Aoyama(U.S.)	Regional Employment Development Policies and Programs in the United States
Chapter 9 (147KB)	Jan Hendeliowitz and Carina B. Woollhead (Denmark)	Employment Policy in Denmark: High Levels of Employment, Flexibility and Welfare Security
Chapter 10 (93KB)	Michèle Fong (Canada)	Active Employment Measures in Canada: the Role of Regional Economic Development Agencies
Chapter 11 (187KB)	Claudio Tagliaferro (Italy)	Instruments and Programmes for Local Development in Italy
Chapter 12 (151KB)	Hugh Mosley (Germany)	Job-Centers for Local Employment Promotion in Germany
Chapter 13 (193KB)	Minoru Ito and Kazufumi Yugami (Japan)	The Transition and Current Situation of Regional Employment Policies in Japan
List of Authors		(31KB)
List of Participants		(88KB)

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