Gender, Growth and Trade - The Miracle Economies of the Post-war Years (Hardcover)

Contents:
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

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Release date:	December 2000
First published:	2001
Authors:	David Kucera
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-19862-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-415-19862-3
Barcode:	9780415198622

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