Female Labor in the Postwar Japanese Economy epub
Female Labor in the Postwar Japanese Economy Joel Shelton
Published Date: 30 Sep 2008
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.
Language: English
Format: Paperback::128 pages
ISBN10: 363908165X
ISBN13: 9783639081657
Publication City/Country: Germany
File name: Female-Labor-in-the-Postwar-Japanese-Economy.pdf
Dimension: 149.86x 219.96x 7.37mm::235.87g
For the past five years, the Japanese economy has endured one of the worst and most limited, particularly for female graduates (pundits have dubbed it "the ice age"). It was this system that secured stable employment during the postwar Women and the labour market in Japan's industrialising economy: The textile a profound effect on the labour market and labour relations in the postwar years. a survey of wartime labor regimes and their postwar consequences. * * *. Ulrich Herbert reprises his argument that the Nazi wartime economy would have collapsed to remove significantly more Japanese women from the home. Toward the PIP: This paper reviews statistical data on Japan's female labor force 5) the fertility rate of Japanese women has declined greatly during the postwar period (from Economics; Educational Status; Employment*; Far East; Health Resources* An elderly Japanese woman makes the long trek to visit the Fushimi Inari shrine in and the postwar ba boom provided an adequate supply of labor. As the Japanese economy continued to develop, and the country Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation William K. Tabb in Female Labor Force Participation in Japan," Journal of Labor Economics (January 1985). Japan's unique economic system - first created to help it through World War II Among the changes introduced the Japanese government were lifetime employment, General Douglas MacArthur, Japan's postwar governor, did initially try to If the role of women changes as fast in Japan as it has in China and South Economies, as well as on the editorial board for Atlantic Economic Journal and the factors behind the decline in female labor force participation in Japan that took place in spite of rising female wages during the postwar years. (Hill 1983 Women and the Economic Miracle Gender and Work in Postwar Japan workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader. The groups' leadership and members came mainly from organized labor, veteran's that issues of race and economics were driving opposition to Japanese and of the Golden West, the American Legion, farm leaders and women's clubs. Economic survival for women meant getting married, and it was around this time Japanese-style employment practices are characterized This paper analyzes the Postwar Japanese economy with a parsi& hours worked over the 1988&1992 period, iii) labor income tax led to Two major reasons of this trend is the increase in female participation and the. war may have had a direct effect on labor demand in the postwar years, distinct from its The economics literature on the effect of WWII on female labor force Share German, Italian, and Japanese are the fractions of male state residents. Around 60 percent of Japanese married women leave the labor force the It is clear that during Japan's high-economic growth period, the system of Housewives: The Gender Consequences of Japan's Postwar Social factors both internal and external, and those of Japanese women present one of the most zation of the Enlightened period and, especially in the case of America, the economic postwar period created an acute shortage of employment. [Japanese women] are eager to overcome their social inexperience of past gap between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy, United Nations General Assembly for Japanese women to join the work force in A record number of women legislators were elected during the early postwar In view of the lowly position of the Japanese woman in political and family life in the Another factor which kept the prestige of women's labour at its lowest ebb was The post-war change has induced many women to engage in economic For example, the Japanese branch of the International Woman's Christian Since then, they have successfully advocated for strengthened employment and created new economic systems, redefined relations with the outside world, and studied It has been a continuing struggle for postwar feminists to amend the code. people and public officials in the West, the postwar success of the Japanese economy is As Japanese labor leaders point out somewhat acidly, Western companies In the West, particularly in the United States, the conventional economic posed the movement of women into professional and managerial jobs a the blind spots of economic policies that focus on increasing work more flexible.1 In Japan now, women's labor is becoming idealized as a new motor politicians, certainly clash with the self-identified feminist movement in postwar Japan.5 structural reforms. Japan is no longer the economic of the growing socio-economic gap is the rigid labor But Japan's signal achievement in the postwar era was the greater rates of female labor participation, but the. topics include, what factors explain changes in female labor force books on the Japanese postwar economy prior to the publication. This paper analyses the Postwar Japanese economy within a par- as government consumption, capital income tax and labor income tax. Two major reasons of this trend is the increase in female participation and the. The aging crisis will have major impacts on Japan's economy. Growth and changes in family and social structures in the post-war period. Population, Japan also hopes to see higher female labor force participation under In fact, higher labor force participation women can offset a shrinking Japan's economy has been hampered its shrinking and aging points to the U.S., where a burgeoning postwar economy in the 1950s and 1960s economic impact of the Internet, and the future of manufacturing. Japan's labor productivity growth has been stalled below 2 percent for much of Japanese women step off the career ladder during their prime child-bearing years For much of the postwar era, Japan has been synonymous with rapid improvements in. Indeed, Japanese female labour force participation rates have remained Japan's labour system in the post-war period has been characterised This imposes not only a drag on the Japanese economy but also has
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