Labour Market Dualism and Diversification in Japan

Watanabe, Hiroaki Richard

doi:10.1111/bjir.12258

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“…un máximo de 5,5 % en 2009, disminuye constantemente durante los años siguientes y, en diciembre de 2019, es de 2,2 % (Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2019). Dado que la flexibilización ha invadido tanto el empleo regular como el no regular, el problema para la mayoría de los japoneses no es encontrar trabajo (ni siquiera cuando la tasa de desempleo era más alta), sino encontrar, mantener y construir una carrera en un "buen trabajo", normalmente definido en términos de contrato a tiempo indefinido y bien remunerado, con beneficios y protecciones, horarios convenientes y otras condiciones laborales deseables (Watanabe, 2018). La precarización de la sociedad japonesa (Allison, 2013;Cook, 2013;Toivonen et al, 2011;Toivonen & Imoto, 2013) hace que su mercado del entretenimiento esté lo bastante maduro para la exploración (y, a veces, también para la explotación) de temores ampliamente compartidos que van desde no poder formar una familia ni asegurar la estabilidad económica a experimentar de primera mano el desmoronamiento de estructuras y apoyos que parecían fiables hasta tiempos recientes (Cook, 2016;.…”

Section: Humanitarismo Y El Japón Contemporáneounclassified

Humanismos al borde del colapso: los anime nihilistamina

Lozano-Méndez

Loriguillo-López

2022

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El presente artículo presenta a un nuevo tipo de protagonista desarrollado en el manganime japonés:los héroes/heroínas nihilistamina. A diferencia del entusiasta héroe shōnen, los personajes de algunos de los títulos más populares del medio se sacrifican para la supervivencia de la humanidad pese a su visión nihilista del mundo, marcada por el trauma, la desafección institucional y los trastornos mentales. Mediante un análisis narratológico de sus funciones, apoyado en una presentación del contexto del humanitarismo en Japón,ofrecemos un punto de partida para integrar este tipo de personajes en los estudios sobre la representación del humanitarismo en la ficción contemporánea.

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Section: Humanitarismo Y El Japón Contemporáneounclassified

Humanismos al borde del colapso: los anime nihilistamina

Lozano-Méndez

Loriguillo-López

2022

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“…This produces consequences on labour demand and remunerations in all segments of the Japanese labour market, including regular workers (Kitagawa et al . 2018; Watanabe 2018).…”

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Non‐standard Employment and Rent‐sharing

2022

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In this paper, we analyse how non-standard (or non-regular) employment affects the capacity of regular workers to appropriate rents. In this context, we first extend the theoretical framework of Estevão and Tevlin to account for the heterogeneity of labour (regular and non-regular workers). The predictions of the model are then tested with detailed industry-level data over four decades for Japan, where, similar to the majority of advanced OECD countries, the role of standard employment has declined significantly. After controlling for worker characteristics (gender, age, education) and using an array of econometric approaches, our results indicate that in contexts characterized by a higher share of non-regular employment, rent-sharing by regular workers is lower. This might have contributed to the long-run wage stagnation observed in Japan in recent decades.

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“…For instance, as trade union activist Mikamoto (NPO POSSE) argued, Abe government's labour market reforms fails to incorporate the views of workers' or unions' voices, and reforms remain superficial and largely perpetuate precarious hiring practices (interview, January 23, 2019). This reflects the reduced strength of organized labour more generally within Japan's current model of capitalism (Imai, 2021, Watanabe, 2018. According to one Rengo survey, the majority of non-regular workers still face low wages, unequal treatment and no improvement in their employment status (2018, p. 7, 10, 14-15).…”

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Digitalization or flexibilization? The changing role of technology in the political economy of Japan

Shibata

2021

Review of International Political Economy

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We are increasingly surrounded by talk of digitalization. Yet, we remain unsure about what impact this digitalization will have upon socio-economic institutions, how the introduction of this digitalization will be contested, the likely role of the state in managing the adoption of digital technology, and the likely consequences for the broader political economy if and when it is introduced. This article examines the process of digitalization as it has unfolded in the service sector in Japan. Based on qualitative interviews with managers in the hospitality industry and union officials, the paper depicts a process that contrasts starkly with the more optimistic view adopted by some commentators, according to which digitalization has the potential to improve working conditions and contribute to a more stable form of growth. Instead, the paper draws on Regulation Theory to argue that the introduction of digitalization is part of a wider process of neoliberalization. As such, digitalization has contributed to deskilling, the fragmentation of work tasks, a digital divide, the intensification of work, and higher levels of workplace surveillance. This represents a further dismantling of the social compromise that underpinned Japan's earlier period of economic growth.

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Labour Market Dualism and Diversification in Japan

Abstract: The Japanese labour market has been regarded as 'dualistic' in terms of employment status (regular vs non-regular

Cited by 13 publications

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Humanismos al borde del colapso: los anime nihilistamina

Humanismos al borde del colapso: los anime nihilistamina

Non‐standard Employment and Rent‐sharing

Digitalization or flexibilization? The changing role of technology in the political economy of Japan

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