JILPT International Seminar 2013 (November 22)
The Labour Market Impacts of Natural and Environmental Disasters

This international seminar is aimed at stimulating and focusing a debate on the considerable labour impacts of natural and environmental disasters, be they earthquakes, floods, mining disasters and so on. By concentrating on the labour impacts of these disasters, both short term and long term, we hope to contribute to a greater understanding of what needs to be done to protect the labour market from the effects and helping it to deal with the consequences of these events.

The papers presented in the Seminar are compiled as JILPT Report No.13 (PDF:2.5MB)

Speakers (in order of presentation)

Michele Tiraboschi / Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

• Overcoming Natural and Environmental Disasters: the Role of Industrial Relations – Some Reflections on the Italian Case – (PDF:271KB)

Shinichi Umezawa / Research Director, The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (Japan)

• The Great East Japan Earthquake: Its Damages, Impacts on the Labour-economy and Restoration Measures of the Government (PDF:453KB)

Felicity Lamm / Professor, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)

• The Impact of Disasters on Independent Contractors: Victims of Circumstances (PDF:281KB)

Malcolm Sargeant / Professor, Middlesex University Business School (U.K.)

• The Vulnerable in Natural, Environmental and Technological Disasters (PDF:259KB)

Masahiko Fujimoto / Professor, Tohoku University (Japan)

• The Current Situation and Future Problems of Employment in the Disaster Area (PDF:982KB)

Hiroshi Yoshida / Professor, Tohoku University (Japan)

• Results of an Analysis of Personal Questionnaire Surveys on the Great East Japan Earthquake – Income, Workplace, Daily Living and Health – (PDF:290KB)

Akiko Ono / Vice Senior Researcher, The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (Japan)

• Employment of Disaster Victims Supporting the Reconstruction – the Role Played by the Emergency Job Creation Program in Emergency Temporary Housing Support – (PDF:399KB)