...Harald CONRAD; Hendrik MEYER-OHLE Japan migration job agents brokers high-skilled labor labor market intermediation varieties of capitalism employment system Harald CONRAD is Sasakawa Lecturer in Japan’s Economy and Management at the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies...

...-Life-Balance: The Impact on Household Behavior and Firm Performance’. * Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Gibbons. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in conjunction with the University of Tokyo. All rights reserved. 2017 The Japanese-style employment system is at a major...

...The four types of employment systems shape skills and labour market structures according to the degree of functional flexibility in work assignments and whether firm internal labour markets or occupational labour markets prevail. Both of these depend on a different type of institutional support...

...The theory of employment systems provides a synthesis between the ‘human resource–based’ and the ‘opportunism‐based’ theories of the firm. The work rules shape human resource management systems within the firm, and these serve both as a platform for the development of skills and organizational...

... thirty years, its employment system was transformed from the ‘iron rice bowl’ to a more competitive one. These reforms have been instrumental in raising labour productivity and therefore drive endogenous economic growth, where efficiency improvements are wrought from improving and better rewarding human...

... groups in the five companies, while explaining the current Japanese employment system, which is based on seniority pay, track hiring, and household benefits, and is highly gender biased. Within the career-track system, firms can hire women as career-track, contract, or temporary workers. The current...

... to the widespread use of simple, robust, and conventional criteria. These are shown to reflect closely the type of work rule operating within the employment system. performance criteria performance management Hewlett Packard IBM moral hazard performance assessment payment‐by‐results piecework halo effects...

... by firms and workers. This is reflected in the complexity of most reward systems, as in the measurement of labour cost. Different types of reward systems and pay hierarchies are then related to the four types of employment systems with different ways of linking pay to performance and a contrast between...

... in Japan and Korea labor market divides discretionary work system dispatch work system japan south korea labor market dualization flexibilization industrial relations welfare state employment system globalization europe After World War II, the two East Asian developmental states of Japan...

... mentions Cary Griffin and other dedicated reformists, who had been trying to change the disability employment system in the United States, a complex configuration of funding that includes Medicaid, Social Security, vocational rehabilitation, and state dollars. The chapter details the 1986 movement...

... the nature of change in labor markets and the rise of so-called flexible labor markets. The key elements of the employment system are taken to be: employing organizations and the associated pattern of work organization and pay; the structure of labor supply; and the form of employment relationships...

... low road competitiveness strategy convergence varieties of capitalism institutional complementarity employment system internal diversity One of the most profound debates in the study of employment relations concerns whether employment systems and practices are converging to a common form...

... from competition in the market for corporate control is conducive to the operation of the permanent employment system. By making credible an investor's ex ante promise not to intervene in the ordinary state of business, stable shareholding provides incentives for managers and workers to invest in firm...