This paper seeks to theoretically-and, in part, numerically-examine the determinants of employers' choice of temporary contracts as flexible employment adjustment or screening tools (hereafter, "the flexibility purpose" and "the screening purpose," respectively). This paper considers the following research question: Under what circumstances do more employers prefer screening rather than flexibility? Liberalizing labor markets by introducing flexible employment contracts or relaxing firing regulations for permanent contracts have been considered useful remedies for high, persistent
This paper examines the effect of employment protection in a matching model with endogenous job destruction, collective bargaining, and two types of employment contracts. Using this framework, we show that (i) the impact on job creation and job destruction caused by reducing the firing costs associated with temporary jobs depends on the labour unions' bargaining strength and the gap in firing costs between contracts; (ii) reducing the firing costs associated with permanent jobs unambiguously decreases equilibrium unemployment if labour unions have strong bargaining power; and (iii) the impact caused by the firing costs differs between collective and individual bargaining.
Iwaya Sazanami (1870-1933) was a prominent figure in modern Japanese children’s literature. He traveled to the colonial Korean peninsula eight times in his life, the main purpose of these journeys being to give oral presentations of fairy tales to children in Korea. He energetically traveled throughout the country, including Keizyo (Seoul), Pyongyang, Kaesong, Wonsan and Busan.Regarding Sazanami’s visits to Korea, there have been excellent studies by Kim Sung-yeon(2010) and Otake Kiyomi(2008). However, previous studies have mainly focused on Sazanami as a children’s author and oral storyteller, and analysis of his literary works, political thought and ideology outside of this framework has not always been sufficient.Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to clarify what kind of experiences Sazanami had in Korea under Japanese rule, and the essence of the literature, political thought, and political ideology he formed there.This is important because he was a committed imperialist and colonialist with close ties to Saito Makoto and other officials in the Korean Governor-General’s Office. In the haiku he wrote in Korea, we can see a kind of “Japanese-style Orientalism” through which a writer from an imperialist state that was one of the first to modernize in Asia discovers and grows to love the pre-modern cultural customs and manners of its colonies.
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