The rise of temporary employment in Japan: legalisation and expansion of a non-regular employment form

Abstract: "This discussion paper examines the institutionalization process of a non-regular employment form especially focusing on the establishment of the temporary dispatching work (haken) system. The institutionalization process of the haken system can be divided into three periods: delegalisation (1947-86), legalisation (1986-99), and diffusion (1999-). Declining labor strength, the emergence of deregulation bodies, and the changing attitude of the Ministry of Labor (MHLW) characterize the legal developments. Together with the liberalization of private job placement and the expansion of fixed-term contract work, temporary work became an important sources of flexible and skilled labor, and expanded more rapidly than other employment forms in the late 90s. In this development, temporary help firms started to reframe their business as 'personnel services,' and have positioned themselves to replace the traditional firm-internal supply of mobile employees such as shukkô and tenseki with exter

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 64 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Duisburger Arbeitspapiere Ostasienwissenschaften / Duisburg Working Papers on East Asian Studies ; Bd. 62

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Keyword: Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag ; Befristetes Arbeitsverhältnis ; Interim-Management ; Atypische Beschäftigung ; Japan

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Duisburg
• (when): 2004
• Creator: Imai, Jun
• Contributor: Universität Duisburg-Essen Campus Duisburg, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften IN-EAST

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-382578
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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