OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-199X (en ligne)
DOI :
10.1787/1815199x
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
 

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Auteur(s):
Nicola Duell1, David Grubb1, Shruti Singh2, Peter Tergeist
Author Affiliations
  • 1: OCDE, France

  • 2: UK Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Royaume-Uni

Date de publication
07 déc 2010
Bibliographic information
N°:
113
Pages
168
DOI
10.1787/5km35m63qqvc-en

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The Japanese labour market is characterised by high employment rates for men and older workers, and a low unemployment rate. Over the past two decades, female participation has risen, while disparities in the labour market conditions of workers have grown. Further efforts are needed to promote increases in female and older-worker employment rates so as to combat the trend decline in the working-age population, and to reduce dualism in the labour market.
Classification JEL:
  • H53: Public Economics / National Government Expenditures and Related Policies / Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
  • H83: Public Economics / Miscellaneous Issues / Public Administration; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
  • I38: Health, Education, and Welfare / Welfare and Poverty / Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
  • J08: Labor and Demographic Economics / General / Labor Economics Policies
  • J63: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
  • J65: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
  • J68: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies / Public Policy