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2023

• Fact-finding Research on Financial Compensation for Unfair Dismissal Cases in Court (PDF:3.9MB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro

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 (Updated on September 22, 2022)
• Labor Law Policy on Freelance Work (PDF:256KB)
  HAMAGUCHI Keiichiro (Updated on June 30, 2022)
• Remote Work and Job Satisfaction that Depends on Personality Traits: Evidence from Japan (PDF:482KB)
  TAKAMI Tomohiro (Updated on March 28, 2022)
• Analysis of Regular Employees Whose Inclination to Change Jobs Has Increased in the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF:757KB)　
  TAKAHASHI Koj (Updated on February 25, 2022)

2021

• COVID-19-Related Job Separation and Income Decline in Japan (PDF:802KB) 　
  TAKAHASHI Koj (Updated on November 25, 2021)
• Wage Compensation during Leave in the COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impacts on Workers' Careers (PDF:678KB)　
  TAKAHASHI Koji (Updated on September 28, 2021)
• Working from Home and Work-life Balance during COVID-19: The Latest Changes and Challenges in Japan (PDF:678KB)
  

  TAKAMI Tomohiro (Updated on July 27, 2021)

• Job Separation and Reemployment amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan (PDF:1.47MB)
  

  TAKAHASHI Koji (Updated on May 25, 2021)

• How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19's Damages on Work (Continued, Part II): Catch Up With Men on the Employment Recovery (PDF:906KB)
  

  ZHOU Yanfei, JILPT Associate Researcher. Professor, Japan Women's University (Updated on May 25, 2021)

• Working Hours under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Reviewing Changes by Situation Phase during and after the 2020 State of Emergency Declaration (PDF:585KB)
  

  TAKAMI Tomohiro (Updated on March 25, 2021)

• How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work (Continued): The Gender Gap in Employment Recovery (PDF:514KB)
  

  ZHOU Yanfei (Updated on March 11, 2021)

• Impact of the COVID-19 Recession on Full-Time Workers：Shortened Work Hours, Working from Home, and Possible Widening of Income Disparities
  

  TAKAMI Tomohiro (Updated on January 18, 2021)

2020

• Decreased Working Hours and Impact on Wages：A Look Back at the Novel Coronavirus’s “First Wave” in Japan
  

  TAKAHASHI Koji (Updated on November 10, 2020)

• How Women Bear the Brunt of COVID-19’s Damages on Work
  

  ZHOU Yanfei (Updated on October 15, 2020)

• Realities of Restructuring Enterprise Organization in Japan：Frontlines of Industrial Relations
  

  OH, Hak-Soo (Updated on July 6, 2020)

2018

• Changes in the Employment System over the Course of History
  

  Takahiko KUSANO (Updated on December 20, 2018)

• Japan’s Employment System and Formation of the “Abuse of the Right to Dismiss” Theory
  

  Keiichiro HAMAGUCHI (Updated on November 13, 2018)

• Employment Support and Career Guidance for Young People
  

  Harumi MUROYAMA (Updated on June 5, 2018)

• Supporting Youth: Looking Back on the Last 15 Years
  

  Yukie HORI (Updated on May 25, 2018)

• Companies that Promote Employees’ Career Self-Reliance and Specific Initiatives
  

  Makoto Fujimoto (Updated on April 23, 2018)

• The Future of the Japanese-style Employment System: Continued Long-term Employment and the Challenges It Faces
  

  Koji TAKAHASHI (Updated on March 28, 2018)

• Is Career Counseling Effective?
  

  Hideo SHIMOMURA (Updated on January 22, 2018)

2017

• Distress in Childrearing Households
  

  Yanfei ZHOU (Updated on October 12, 2017)

• Industry-Specific Characteristic in Overwork by Young Regular Employees
  

  Tomohiro TAKAMI (Updated on September 28, 2017)

• Findings from Surveys on the Amended Labor Contract Act
  

  Yuko WATANABE (Updated on September 7, 2017)

• The Role of “Agreements” in EU Labor Law Policy
  

  Keiichiro HAMAGUCHI (Updated on July 6, 2017)

2016

• Valuing Internal Human Resource Development in the U.S. Companies
  

  Ken YAMAZAKI (Updated on October 18, 2016)

• Toward a New Dawn: The importance and potential of quantifying occupational information
  

  Shinsaku MATSUMOTO (Updated on July 20, 2016)

• China Facing Employment Risks in the Process of Structural Adjustment: From the 13th Northeast Asia Labor Forum, “Employment Problems and Policy Countermeasures in Industrial Restructuring and Upgrading”
  

  Mitsuji AMASE (Updated on June 14, 2016)

• Possibilities and Problems in the Use of Legal Policy to Promote Labor-Management Dialog: From the experience of France
  

  Ryo HOSOKAWA (Updated on June 14, 2016)

• Collective Agreement Autonomy and the State: Recent Legal Policies on the Collective Agreement System in Germany
  

  Yota YAMAMOTO (Updated on June 14, 2016)

2015

• Development and Dilemma of Employment Business in the Career-Change Market
  

  Satoru KAMESHIMA (Updated on November 19, 2015)

• Industry and Female Managers
  

  Tamotsu NAGATA (Updated on October 20, 2015)

• 60 Years of "Spring Offensives"
  

  Noboru OGINO (Updated on August 27, 2015)

• The Employment System Project and Research by JILPT
  

  Takahiko KUSANO (Updated on May 19, 2015)

• Sign of Change in Employment Portfolio
  

  Noboru Ogino (Updated on March 24, 2015)

• Wage Increases and the Labor Market
  

  Yutaka ASAO (Updated on February 26, 2015)

• Realities and Challenges of Initial Career Formation
  "From secondary analysis of the "Employment Status Survey" (Statistics Bureau, MIC)
  

  Reiko KOSUGI (Updated on February 26, 2015)

• Thoughts on Working Hour Systems
  

  Yutaka ASAO (Updated on January 20, 2015)

• Research on Prime-Age Workers in Non-Regular Employment
  

  Koji TAKAHASHI (Updated on January 20, 2015)

2014

• Evidence-Based Debate on Dismissal Regulation
  

  Keiichiro HAMAGUCHI (Updated on November 12, 2014)