Laggards and Leaders in Labour Market Reform : Comparing Japan and Australia (Paperback)

1: Facing up to the hurdle race - Jenny Corbett, Anne Daly, and Dehne Taylor Section 1: State of the economy since 1990 and implications for labour markets  2: Australia’s changing labour market - Dehne Taylor  3: Economic recession and changes in wages of part-time employees in Japan - Tomoko Kishi  4: The changing distribution of working hours in Australia - Mark Wooden and Robert Drago  Section 2: Trade and the labour markets  5: Has globalisation increased Australian inequality? - Noel Gaston and Gulasekaran Rajaguru  6: Imports, production, and the Australian worker - Christis G. Tombazos  Section 3: Earnings and income distribution  7: A rising tide? Income inequality, the social safety net and the labour market in Australia - Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu and Alicia Payne  8: The changing role of skill, wages, employment and education in the Japanese labour market, 1985-2005 - Hisako Ishii  Section 4: Population aging and migration  9: Labour force participation of older workers in Australia and Japan: a tale of two pension systems - Hazel Bateman and John Piggott  10: Australia’s skilled migration program and skilled migration between Australia and Japan - Dharmalingam Arunachalam and Ernest Healy  11: Ageing, migration, and female workers in Japan - Junichi Goto  Section 5: Youth and women  12: Changing transitions: developments in the labour market and education for Australian youth since the 1980s - Anne Daly and Kenneth Cole  13: Equal employment opportunity, work-life balance and corporate performance in Japan: an analysis based on matched employer?manager?employee data - Akira Kawaguchi