The Trend Toward Nonregular Employment Among Young Workers, 1994-2003

Yanfei Zhou

Japanese Economy, 2009, vol. 36, issue 4, 105-134

Abstract: This study uses individual data to explore the reasons young Japanese workers are becoming nonpermanent employees, and to analyze the factors including both year effects and effects tied to individuals' characteristics that account for recent increases in nonpermanent employment rate. The results are, first, there has been an increase in the number of young people who are becoming nonpermanent employees "reluctantly." Even among people in the same age group, those who entered the workforce later tend to have higher rates of nonpermanent employment. Second, factor analysis reveals the possibility that covariant factors, such as macroeconomic fluctuations or changes in labor demand, are a major reason for the increase in nonpermanent employment rate among young people. Third, the increase in the number of females and unmarried people in the labor force are also a predominant factor behind the increase in nonpermanent employment rates.

Date: 2009
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