◆ Japan Labor Review Volume 13, Number 3, Summer 2016
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The Japan Labor Review is a quarterly journal of research in the field  of labor studies. For the purpose of providing valuable information on Japanese labor issues to the broad range of overseas readers, articles
are selected, edited and published by an editorial board of the JILPT.

  Main theme of this issue:
  "Why Is There a Persistent Gender Gap in the Labor Market?"

 【Contents】
    ▽Introduction

    ▽Articles
      ・Determinants of the Gender Gap in the Proportion of Managers among
        White-Collar Regular Workers in Japan
      ・An Analysis of Organizational Factors That Increase Women's Ambition
        for Promotion
      ・Gender-Based Job Segregation and the Gender Gap in Career Formation:
        Focusing on Bank Clerical Staff since the Postwar Years
      ・Female Labor Participation and the Sexual Division of Labor:
        A Consideration on the Persistent Male-Breadwinner Model
      ・Gender Disparities in Academic Performance and Motivation in STEM Subjects
        in Japan

    ▽Article Based on Research Report
        Career Counseling at Japanese Companies and Its Intrinsically Japanese Features:
        Three Functions Seen in the Context of the Japanese Employment System

    ▽JILPT Research Activities

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◆ JILPT Research Eye
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  A series of labor-related information (evidence) that contributes to the formation of labor policies.

  ◇China Facing Employment Risks in the Process of Structural Adjustment
    ―From the 13th Northeast Asia Labor Forum, “Employment Problems and Policy
      Countermeasures in Industrial Restructuring and Upgrading”
      http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ◇Possibilities and Problems in the Use of Legal Policy to Promote Labor-Management Dialog
    ―From the experience of France
    http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ◇Collective Agreement Autonomy and the State
    ―Recent Legal Policies on the Collective Agreement System in Germany
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◆ The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies
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 The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies is a peer review-based specialist research magazine containing high-quality articles by researchers and experts active in the front lines of research (first issued in 1959).

   July 2016(No.672)
   Considering Non-regular Employment from the Viewpoints of Gender and Age

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◆ Research Report (Summary)
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JILPT regularly publishes English summaries of Research Reports as results of various researches and studies conducted, originally in Japanese. Listed below are summaries of selected issues provided in English translation.

  ・No.181 Survey of Participants in the Job Seeker Support System
       ―Study based on a three-point longitudinal survey comprising pre-training,
             post-training, and follow-up surveys
       http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ・No.179 Labor-Management Relations in Sweden - With Focus on Rules for Wages
           and Labor Mobility “Research Project on Directions for Collective Labor
           Relations in Connection with the Establishment of Norms” Swedish Case
       http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ・No.177 Systems of Industrial Relations at Company and Workplace Level in Germany
           ―With focus on the establishment of norms by works agreements and company-based collective  agreements
       http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ・No.172 The German System of Monetary Settlement in Cases of Dismissal
           ―Its Legal Framework and Realities
       http://www.jhrs.org/jilpt

  ・No.173 Present Situation of the Legal System Governing Dismissal in France
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