Back to Work Back to Work.

✍ Scribed by OECD

• Publisher: OECD Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over the course of their working lives. Displaced workers may face long periods of unemployment and, even when they find new jobs, tend to be paid less and have fewer benefits than in the jobs they held prior to displacement. Helping displaced workers get back into good jobs quickly should be a key goal of labour market policy. This report is the second in a series of reports looking at how this challenge is being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It shows that Japanese employers and the governm.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Table of contents
Acronyms and abbreviations
Executive summary
Assessment and recommendations
Chapter 1. Job displacement in Japan and its consequences
Introduction
The Japanese labour market context
Displaced workers: Incidence and characteristics
Getting back into work
Changes in wages and job characteristics following displacement
Conclusions
Notes
References
Database references
Annex 1.A1- Additional figures
Chapter 2. Japan's measures to prevent job displacement and other forms of early intervention
Introduction
Preventing job displacement. Annex 3.A2 Recent reforms to mandatory retirement and their potential implications for the operation of voluntary early retirement plansNotes
Chapter 4. Helping Japanese displaced workers back into jobs
Introduction
Key providers of re-employment and training services in Japan
Re-employment and training services
Crisis measures for large numbers of displaced workers
Conclusions
Notes
References
Database references
Annex 4.A1 --
Additional figure.

✦ Subjects

Manpower policy -- Japan;Manpower policy -- United States;Manpower policy;Business & Economics;Labor & Workers’ Economics