The Formation and Transformation of the Japanese System of Transition from School to Work

Honda, Yuki

doi:10.1093/ssjj/7.1.103

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“…Over time, the reliance on institutional ties for locating the first job has hardly decreased for Japanese men, and the levels of this reliance have been similar for the two more recent cohorts in Korea and Taiwan. The stable trend for Japan is especially surprising, given that its institutional linkage model is thought to have been declining since the 1990s (Honda 2004). Perhaps the change has less to do with how frequently institutional ties are used to facilitate school-to-work transition, and more to do with how effective they are in helping school leavers obtain good jobs.…”

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“…In Japan, for example, economic stagnation since the 1990s is thought to have considerably increased firms’ cost of maintaining ties with schools, which may have decreased first job placements through institutional linkages (Honda 2004; Ryan 2001). This change could potentially lengthen men's transitions from school to work over time.…”

Section: Institutional Contexts Of Japan Korea and Taiwanmentioning

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Off to a good start: A comparative study of changes in men's first job prospects in East Asia

Chiu

2014

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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Research on young adults’ transition to the labor market rarely investigates how nation-level institutional arrangements shape changes over time. In particular, a systematic comparison of shifts in young adults’ job opportunities in East Asia is virtually absent. Using comparable data from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, we examine cohort differences in the timing, quality, and stability of men's first jobs. The results indicate overall declines in first occupational attainment for men in all three countries, but the main driving force for the decrease in Japan differs from that in Korea and Taiwan. Whereas macroeconomic pressure fully explains the decline in Japanese men's first occupational attainment, educational expansion accounts for a considerable part of the declines for men in Korea and Taiwan. Moreover, educational expansion has eroded better-educated men's advantages in speedily transitioning from school to work in Taiwan, but it has not had a similar effect on Japanese men. We argue that Japan's employment system, coupled with a fair amount of institutional ties between schools and firms, has shielded young men from the pressure of educational expansion, making the trends about their early-career outcomes different from those of their counterparts in Korea and Taiwan. The different degrees to which firm internal labor markets have been adopted in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan also explain how increasing macroeconomic pressure has different impacts on men's first job stability in East Asia.

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Section: Institutional Contexts Of Japan Korea and Taiwanmentioning

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Off to a good start: A comparative study of changes in men's first job prospects in East Asia

Chiu

2014

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…In tandem with the Japanese state's deployment of the 'selfresponsibility' discourse is the rise of 'freeters' (freelancer) and 'haken-workers' (temporarilycontracted employment with minimum benefits). That decline amounts in effect to a retreat from the so-called 'three treasures' of Japanese industrial relations: lifetime employment, strong unions and guaranteed seniority pay (Honda, 2004;Hook and Hiroko, 2007).…”

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China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?

Horesh

Lim

2016

The Pacific Review

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“…For these individuals who face new periods of uncertainty not only at work, but also in the family and at school (Alexy 2007;Honda 2004;Kelly and White 2006), the panic inducing discourse of the media and the finger-pointing of the government do not provide the anchor that will create stability in their lives (see Yamada 2004). The orienting moral foundations and social fabric of what was once called the "mass of new middle-class" seems to many people to be unraveling.…”

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Spiritual safety nets and networked faith: The “liquidity” of family and work under late modernity

Gagné¹

2011

Contemporary Japan

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In the midst of the 20 years of economic and social uncertainty that has been punctuated by the worldwide financial crisis, an increasing rhetoric of economic uncertainty and social instability has risen to popular consciousness among many ordinary citizens in Japan. With changing economic and familial relations, individuals in Japan are participating in the networked communities of "moralizing institutions" to find renewed stability and a sense of empowerment in their lives. Through ethnographic fieldwork with an international religious organization and a domestic ethics organization, this paper analyzes the diverse ways in which individuals are reestablishing a sense of stability and direction by reengaging with idealized life patterns and family orientations that have become more elusive under the increasingly uncertain socioeconomic conditions. Specifically, I analyze how individual members were directly affected by what Zygmunt Bauman calls the "liquidity" of recent economic reforms including rising unemployment and late-career layoffs which had drastic repercussions on life planning and family relations. As human networks built from resilient networked faith, these moralizing institutions provide a different kind of logic of "liquidity" and "flexibility," allowing members to realize their idealized life plans and to navigate toward the solid ground of a stable work and family life.

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The Formation and Transformation of the Japanese System of Transition from School to Work

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Off to a good start: A comparative study of changes in men's first job prospects in East Asia

Off to a good start: A comparative study of changes in men's first job prospects in East Asia

China: an East Asian alternative to neoliberalism?

Spiritual safety nets and networked faith: The “liquidity” of family and work under late modernity

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