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2026

• Responses to Overtime Work Caps: Case Studies of Four Freight Transport Companies (PDF:1.6MB)
  MAEURA Hodaka (Nagano University)
• Training Investment and the Choice of Wage Adjustment Instruments in Japanese Firms (PDF:918KB)
  HE Fang
• Law and Policy on Health Protection in the Workplace during a Pandemic (PDF:627KB)
  YAMAMOTO Yota
• An Approach that Facilitates a Connection between the Psychology of the Unemployed and the Social System: What We Can Learn from a Book Entitled "The Psychology of Unemployment" (PDF:733KB)
  KAYANO Jun
• Results of the Eighth "Survey on Working Life" from JILPT Fixed-Point Survey (PDF:803KB)
  GUNJI Masato
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2025

• State of Reinstatement of Dismissed Employees Following Court Decisions to Nullify Dismissal (PDF:655KB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
• What Hurdles Are Young Female Regular Employees Facing in Japan? Recent Changes in the Young Generation's Career Attitudes (PDF:866KB)
  OGURO Megumi
• Creation of “Employment for Skill Development Program,” Aiming for Making Japan an Attractive Destination for Foreign Workers (PDF:377KB)
  YAMAGUCHI Rui
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2024

• What Is "Job-based Employment" (Job-gata koyō)? (PDF:791KB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
• Changes and Continuity in Non-regular Employment in Japan: Improved General Situation, Yet Persistent Gender Structure (PDF:789KB)
  TAKAHASHI Koji
• Fact-finding Research on Financial Compensation for Unfair Dismissal Cases in Court (PDF:3.9MB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
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2023

• Changing Jobs among Middle-aged Workers in Japan: What Affects Workers’ Personnel Treatment and Utilization of Skills and Knowledge at a New Job (PDF:849KB) 
  FUJIMOTO Makoto
• Findings from the Results of the "NHK/JILPT Joint Survey on Lifestyles and Attitudes" (PDF:534KB) 
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2022

• Changes in Work/Life Situations and Psychological Distress during the Prolonged COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (PDF:381KB)
  • Advance Published on August 24, 2022 (PDF:352KB)
    TAKAMI Tomohiro
• Labor Law Policy on Freelance Work (PDF:256KB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro
• Remote Work and Job Satisfaction that Depends on Personality Traits: Evidence from Japan (PDF:482KB)
  TAKAMI Tomohiro
• Analysis of Regular Employees Whose Inclination to Change Jobs Has Increased in the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF:757KB)
  TAKAHASHI Koji
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2021

• COVID-19-Related Job Separation and Income Decline in Japan (PDF:802KB)
  • Advance Published on October 5, 2021 (PDF:801KB)
    TAKAHASHI Koji
• Wage Compensation during Leave in the COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impacts on Workers' Careers (PDF:678KB)
  TAKAHASHI Koji
• Working from Home and Work-life Balance during COVID-19: The Latest Changes and Challenges in Japan (PDF:678KB)
  TAKAMI Tomohiro
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2020

• What Impacts is the COVID-19 Crisis Having on Work and Daily Life? —From the Results of "Survey on the Impact that Spreading Novel Coronavirus Infection has on Work and Daily Life" (May 2020 Survey) (PDF:513KB)
  • Advance Published on October 15, 2020 (PDF:527KB)
• Research on Job Search Interventions: Examination of the Feasibility of a Cyclical Self-Regulatory Model of Job Search Process Quality (PDF:506KB)
  KAYANO Jun
• A Case Study on Overwork-related Mental Disorders in Japan: Focusing on Young Employees (PDF:429KB)
  TAKAMI Tomohiro
• Development of the Input Data for the Occupational Information Network of Japan (PDF:528KB)
  KAMAKURA Tetzushi, MATSUBARA Ayako, MATSUMOTO Shinsaku
• Realities of Restructuring Enterprise Organization in Japan: Frontlines of Industrial Relations (PDF:251KB)
  OH, Hak-Soo
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2019

• Long-term Employment as a Social Norm: An Analysis of the JILPT “Survey on Working Life” (1999–2015) (PDF:430KB)
  Koji Takahashi
• Japanese Policy regarding Employment-like Working Styles (PDF:169KB)
  Keiichiro Hamaguchi
• Poverty and Income Polarization of Married Stay-at-home Mothers in Japan
  Part II: What Drives Japanese Women to Be Full-time Housewives despite Poverty? (PDF:348KB)
  Yanfei ZHOU
• Poverty and Income Polarization of Married Stay-at-home Mothers in Japan
  Part I: Historical Perspectives of Japanese Full-time Housewives (PDF:368KB)
  Yanfei ZHOU
• The Current State of the Japanese-style Employment System for High School Graduates: Based on Case Studies of 1997, 2007, and 2017 (PDF:321KB)
  Yukie Hori
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2018

• Gender Segregation at Work in Japanese Companies: Focusing on Gender Disparities in Desire for Promotion (PDF:377KB)
  Tomohiro Takami
• Japan's Employment System and Formation of the "Abuse of the Right to Dismiss" Theory (PDF:229KB)
  Keiichiro Hamaguchi
• Industry and Female Managers: Insights for Promoting Women's Active Participation in the Workplace (PDF:372KB)
  Tamotsu Nagata
• New Rules of Conversion from Fixed-term to Open-ended Contracts: Companies' Approaches to Compliance and the Subsequent Policy Developments (PDF:359KB)
  Yuko Watanabe
• The Future of the Japanese-style Employment System: Continued Long-term Employment and the Challenges It Faces (PDF:1.2MB)
  Koji Takahashi
• Is Career Counseling Effective? (PDF:472KB)
  Hideo Shimomura
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2017

• Elderly Employment in a Society of Population Decline (PDF:1.13MB)
  Errata (PDF:118KB)
  Takaaki Tahara
• Basic Information on Recent Elderly Employment Trends in Japan (PDF:872KB)
  Yutaka Asao
• 75.8% Motivated to Keep Working even after Reaching Pensionable Age: The 7th Survey on Working Life (PDF:673KB)
• Polarization of Working Styles: Measures to Solve the Polarization and New Category of Regular Employees (PDF:1.4MB)
  Koji Takahashi

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