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

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  • Imai, Jun

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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 external dispatched employees of temporary help firms.

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  • Imai, Jun, 2004. "The rise of temporary employment in Japan: Legalisation and expansion of a non-regular employment form," Working Papers on East Asian Studies 62/2004, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST.
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    1. 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.
    2. Gottschall, Karin & Shire, Karen A., 2007. "Understanding employment systems from a gender perspective: pitfalls and potentials of new comparative analytical frameworks," Working papers of the ZeS 06/2007, University of Bremen, Centre for Social Policy Research (ZeS).
    3. Kojima Shinji, 2010. "When dismissal becomes a business transaction: Analysis of the processes and consequences of haken-giri under the global recession," Contemporary Japan, De Gruyter, vol. 22(1-2), pages 23-45, January.
    4. Neil Coe & Jennifer Johns & Kevin Ward, 2011. "Transforming the Japanese Labour Market: Deregulation and the Rise of Temporary Staffing," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(8), pages 1091-1106.
    5. Cooke, Fang Lee. & Brown, Ronald., 2015. "The regulation of non-standard forms of employment in China, Japan and the Republic of Korea," ILO Working Papers 994888163402676, International Labour Organization.

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