03974nam 2200697 450 991081189550332120230803201757.00-8014-7100-10-8014-7101-X10.7591/9780801471018(CKB)3710000000087751(OCoLC)870273129(CaPaEBR)ebrary10836272(SSID)ssj0001115655(PQKBManifestationID)11637050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115655(PQKBWorkID)11083844(PQKB)10001836(StDuBDS)EDZ0001505810(MiAaPQ)EBC3138572(MdBmJHUP)muse34655(DE-B1597)478595(OCoLC)979577426(DE-B1597)9780801471018(Au-PeEL)EBL3138572(CaPaEBR)ebr10836272(CaONFJC)MIL683601(EXLCZ)99371000000008775120130903h20142014 uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtccrInequality in the workplace labor market reform in Japan and Korea /Jiyeoun SongIthaca :Cornell University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (248 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-52319-3 0-8014-5215-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Japanese and Korean labor markets and social protections in a comparative perspective -- The politics of labor market reform in hard times : a theoretical framework -- The institutional origins of labor markets and social protections in Japan and Korea -- Japan : liberalization for outsiders, protection for insiders -- Korea : liberalization for all, except for chaebŏl workers.The past several decades have seen widespread reform of labor markets across advanced industrial countries, but most of the existing research on job security, wage bargaining, and social protection is based on the experience of the United States and Western Europe. In Inequality in the Workplace, Jiyeoun Song focuses on South Korea and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets between protected regular workers and underprotected and underpaid nonregular workers. The two countries have implemented very different strategies in response to the pressure to increase labor market flexibility during economic downturns. Japanese policy makers, Song finds, have relaxed the rules and regulations governing employment and working conditions for part-time, temporary, and fixed-term contract employees while retaining extensive protections for full-time permanent workers. In Korea, by contrast, politicians have weakened employment protections for all categories of workers.In her comprehensive survey of the politics of labor market reform in East Asia, Song argues that institutional features of the labor market shape the national trajectory of reform. More specifically, she shows how the institutional characteristics of the employment protection system and industrial relations, including the size and strength of labor unions, determine the choice between liberalization for the nonregular workforce and liberalization for all as well as the degree of labor market inequality in the process of reform.Labor marketJapanLabor marketKorea (South)Manpower policyJapanManpower policyKorea (South)Labor marketLabor marketManpower policyManpower policy331.120952Song Jiyeoun1975-1607428MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811895503321Inequality in the workplace3933699UNINA