Japanese-Style Employment Practices and Male-Female Wage Differentials

Machiko Osawa

Japanese Economy, 1994, vol. 22, issue 5-6, 3-43

Abstract: In the previous chapter, we considered how women coped with economic change and how that influenced male-female wage differentials. Women's employment patterns have changed dramatically depending on their decisions about childbirth. During the prewar generation it was common practice for women to marry and become homemakers. Employment patterns changed for the wartime and postwar generations when women worked as regular workers before marriage and childbirth and then sought reentry into the labor force as nonregular workers. Now a new generation is emerging in which women are delaying marriage and childbirth as they attempt to combine career and matrimony. In this chapter, we consider how firms have dealt with the economic change and the male-female wage differentials from the labor—demand side.

Date: 1994
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