Arrival of Newcomers and Future Prospects of Japan’s Labour Market

Hiromi Mori
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Hiromi Mori: Hosei University

Chapter 3 in Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan, 1997, pp 69-94 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Due to a number of interacting factors, Japan became one of the main labour-importing countries in Asia in the 1980s. It has attracted migrant workers, not only legally but also, through illegal channels. Although the current share of foreign workers in Japan’s labour market remains at a far lower level in comparison with many European and other Asian labour-importing countries, the number of newcomers has risen dramatically, especially in the second half of the 1980s. Migrant workers were unevenly distributed among sectors, occupations and firms of different size. Besides looking at the current segmented nature of the labour market, one must explore future prospects when one argues that the labour market is structurally dependent upon foreign labour.

Keywords: Labour Market; Labour Supply; Migrant Worker; Labour Demand; Immigration Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230374522_3

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