The regulation of non-standard forms of employment in China, Japan and the Republic of Korea

Fang Lee. Cooke and Ronald. Brown

ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization

Abstract: This study, commissioned by the International Labour Office (ILO), examines the growth and regulation of non-standard employment in three East Asian countries – the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China), Japan, and the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea). A common feature amongst these three major economies is the deregulation of the labour market and the dramatic growth of the use of non-standard employment in the form of, for example, part-time work, temporary work, labour dispatch via employment agencies, and subcontract work (e.g. Coe et al., 2011; Kim and Park, 2006; Kuroki, 2012; Meng, 2012). And the globalizing economy of the three countries adds further dynamics to the restructuring of their labour market since the 1980s, including the employment of foreign migrant labour (for Japan and Korea) and rural migrant labour en mass (for China).

Keywords: non-standard forms of employment; part time employment; temporary employment; working conditions; labour standards; regulation.; labour market; emploi précaire; emploi à temps partiel; emploi temporaire; conditions de travail; normes du travail; réglementation; marché du travail; empleo precario; empleo a tiempo parcial; empleo temporal; condiciones de trabajo; normas del trabajo; reglamento; mercado de trabajo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 78 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in Conditions of work and employment series

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