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Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility
An International Perspective

Edited by Kazutoshi Koshiro 		This book examines the critical issues that affect labor market flexibility and job security in the main industrialized economies of the United States, Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and Europe, in an attempt to more fully understand the complex forces at work within such labor markets.
The book originated from The International Symposium on Labor Market Flexibility in Yokohama, Japan, in 1986 which focused on three main topics: wage flexibility in response to changing economic conditions, the legal and institutional framework for employment security, and international comparison of employment adjustment.
The labor market cannot be treated in the same way as other markets because it deals directly with human beings who are less likely to obey the immutable laws of the market mechanism. Nevertheless, Koshiro asserts that it is still important to build a framework on which to assess the role of labor flexibility in the competitive process.

1. Labor Market and Manpower Policy 1945-1985
2. Bonus Payments and Wage Flexibility in Japan
3. Aspects of Labor Market Flexibility in Japan and the United States
4. Japanese Wage Flexibility: An International Perspective
5. The Legal and Institutional Framework for Employment Security in the United States: An Overview
6. Revisiting the Legal and Institutional Framework for Employment Security: An International Comparative Perspective
7. Job Security in Japan
8. International Comparison of Employment Adjustment
9. Employment Adjustment : An International Perspective
10. The Employment Adjustment Patterns of Japan and the United States
 
Labor Economics and Policy Series

$44.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2079-1

280 pages

1992