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The Inequalities between Men and Women in the Japanese Labour Market. A Regulationist Approach

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  • Misako Arai

    (Université de Nagoya - Université de Nagoya)

  • Sebastien Lechevalier

    (CCJ - Chine, Corée, Japon - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the changing situation of the Japanese working women since the beginning of the 1990s in the 1990s in a Regulationist perspective. We enrich the concept of Toyotist wage-labour nexus by taking into account the gender. It means, we do not restrain the analysis of working women to the labour market, but we also study the sphere of labour force reproduction. To sum up, we point out a phenomenon of "polarization" among the Japanese working women. Namely at least two groups among female workers are emerging : one is constituted by regular workers, who are treated (almost) similarly to their male counterparts, another one by part-timers, who experience poor working conditions. Another noticeable finding is the change of composition in the differential structure of the Japanese labour market : recently the sex is not the main criterion to understand the inequalities in Japan. It means that the concept of segmentation should be seriously amended to lead to a more satisfying theoretical analysis of the inequalities between men and women in Japan since the beginning of the 1990s.

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  • Misako Arai & Sebastien Lechevalier, 2005. "The Inequalities between Men and Women in the Japanese Labour Market. A Regulationist Approach," Post-Print hal-00945151, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00945151
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    1. Sébastien Lechevalier & Brieuc Monfort, 2016. "Abenomics: Has it worked? Will it fail?," Working Papers halshs-01415428, HAL.
    2. Georg D. BLIND & Stefania LOTTANTI VON MANDACH, 2015. "Decades not Lost, but Won: Increased Employment, Higher Wages, and More Equal Opportunities in the Japanese Labour Market," Social Science Japan Journal, University of Tokyo and Oxford University Press, vol. 18(1), pages 63-88.

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