The Japanese Employment System: Adapting to a New Economic Environment

by Marcus Rebick

This book is a study of the Japanese employment system and how it is changing in response to the economic slowdown of the last decade and the aging of the Japanese population. It focusses on the growth of atypical employment relations and the greater individualization of labor-management relations. The labor markets for women, older workers and youth are given special treatment. Issues such as the rise in unemployment, the decline in the family enterprise,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199247242
• ISBN13: 9780199247240
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"