Japan's 'Employment Ice-age Generation' Today. Investigating the Impact of Instability in the School-to-work Transition.

Autor/in	Hori, Yukie
Titel	Japan's 'Employment Ice-age Generation' Today. Investigating the Impact of Instability in the School-to-work Transition. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Japan's Generation aus der 'Eiszeit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt' heute. Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der Unsicherheit bei der Berufseinmündung.
Quelle	In: Japan labor issues, 4 (2020) 20, S. 3-14 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Sekundarbereich; Erwerbsquote; Gelegenheitsarbeit; Geringfügige Beschäftigung; Mittleres Lebensalter; Auswirkung; Hochschulabsolvent; Schulabgänger; Japan
Abstract	"The youth unemployment rate in Japan has remained relatively low in comparison with that of other countries, due to the system of 'simultaneous mass recruiting of new graduates' allowing young people to make a smooth transition from school to work. However, during the extreme slump in employment opportunities from 1993 to 2004', namely a period which became known as the 'employment ice age,' young people graduating high school or university were often unable to make that transition so easily. This paper sheds light on the state of employment among the 'employment ice-age generation' through secondary analysis of data from MIC's Employment Status Survey 2017. While said generation is already in or approaching middle age, even now a considerable percentage are still freeters or NEETs. The rate of new graduates entering regular employment was used to divide them into the six generations: the 'late bubble economy generation,' 'early employment ice-age generation,' 'late employment ice-age generation,' 'economic recovery generation,' '2008 financial crisis generation,' and 'Abenomics generation.' Looking at the results by gender and educational background, the rate for male and female university graduates was at its lowest in the late employment ice-age generation among those six, with the rate subsequently making a rapid recovery to the level it had reached in the early employment ice age generation. In the case of high school graduates, the trends among male were similar to those of male and female university graduates, while among female high school graduates the rate remained low until the recent economic recovery. It was also observed that the rate of people who were still regular employees in the company that they had joined directly after graduation was also low among the ice-age generation in comparison with other generations, suggesting that the instability that this generation faced at the time of first entering employment has an ongoing impact on their careers into middle age. The ice-age generation was the first since the postwar rapid economic growth to provoke awareness of the need to provide support for young people, and is likely to continue to unsettle the frameworks of Japanese society that have long been based on the premise of the availability of stable employment." (Author's Abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/3