Kucera Gender, Growth and Trade

The Miracle Economies of the Post-war Years
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-69174-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Gender, Growth and Trade examines the role of women as a flexible, contingent workforce in Germany and Japan. This unique comparative study of two of the world's foremost industrialized economies situates empirical results in the context of broader cultural concerns, considering issues such as market flexibility, unemployment, union policy and labour market institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kucera, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Unemployment, Labor Market Flexibility and Women as a Buffer Workforce

Introduction: defining labor market flexibility

Part 1. Evidence on the relationship between labor market flexibility and unemployment

Part 2. Unemployment and labour flexibility in Japan

Conclusion

2. Women's Integration into the Workforce

Introduction: the buffer, job segregation, and substitution hypotheses

Foreign workers in Germany as a buffer workforce

Women as a buffer workforce and the job segregation hypothesis in sectors and manufacturing industries

Comparing patterns of gender segregation

Conclusion

3. Industrial Relations and Labor Market Institutions

Introduction: combining high and low road strategies in Japan

Lifetime employment and nenko earnings in Japan: persisting institutions

Temporary employment as a stepping stone and buffer

Part-time employment from demand and supply sides

Women and unions

Conclusion

Appendix: Policies supporting the employment of mothers; Maternity leave policies; Child care provisions

4. Foreign Trade, Employment and Earnings

Introduction: skills bias and gender bias

Part 1. Foreign trade and men and women's employment

Part 2. Foreign trade and diverging gender wage gaps in Germany and Japan

Conclusion

5. German Reunification

Introduction: the question of convergence

Women's employment in East Germany and persisting inequalities

After the wall: women's high unemployment and demographic shocks

Conclusion