White Paper on the Labour Economy 2006 (November 1)
Diversification of Employment and Working Life

Information

A briefing on current Japanese economic and labour issues will be held for labour affairs specialists at foreign companies, foreign embassies and related organizations, as well as foreign correspondents. In the briefing, Mr. Watanabe will show us an overall view of the current labour market.

• Time and Date: 15:00 – 17:00, Wednesday, November 1, 2006
• Venue: Daido Seimei Kasumigaseki Bldg. 6F 1-4-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
• Theme: Diversification of Employment and Working Life
• Speaker: Manabu WATANABE / Deputy Director, Director General for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
• Languages: Japanese (with consecutive interpretation in English)

Summary

Provisional Translation by the Japan Institue for Labour Policy and Training

• Chapter 1 Trends and features of the labor economy (PDF:119KB)
  • Section 1 Employment and unemployment trends
  • Section 2 Trends in wages and hours workeds
  • Section 3 Trends in prices and workers’household expenditures
• Chapter 2 Diversification of types of employment and background (PDF:138KB)
  • Section 1 Social and economic changes
  • Section 2 Changes in worker attitudes and styles of work
  • Section 3 Changes in corporate behaviour and types of employmen
• Chapter 3 Issues concerning working life (PDF:178KB)
  • Section 1 Changes in working life
  • Section 2 Opportunities for the young to find work and develop their vocational skills
  • Section 3 Employment systems and working life
  • Conclusions (PDF:26KB)