Japan’s Young Workers, Education and Mismatch in Labor Market

• Main Authors: Tzu-Hsien Cheng, 鄭紫賢
• Other Authors: Naonori Koyama
• Format: Others
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h62h9c

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 亞洲研究所碩士班 === 103 === Compared with other groups of labor force, Japanese young workers (15~34 years old) are advantageous in searching for occupations. In the same time, young workers are also easy to change or quit their jobs because they are still at a step to search for ideal occupations. On the other hand, there are almost 1/4 irregular employment are young workers. Parts of them are unwilling to become irregular employment. Japanese salaries are increasing normally, but the disparity between permanent employment and irregular employment is existed. That’s why the problem of unwilling irregular employment should not be ignorant. These irregular employments are not able to become permanent employment even though they want. This will be the core of this thesis-‘Mismatch in Labor market’. Mismatch happened in many perspectives. Some cases are due to asymmetric information or discorded in demanding of companies and labor force. Mismatch caused unemployment; further more, continuously changing jobs or resignation. Recently years, Gross Tertiary Education Enrollment Ratio is elevated. As a result, capability of young workers should be improved. But the fact is that unwilling irregular employments are rising. As for mentioned, if education can’t help young workers as we expected, the way how Japanese government use employment strategies to assist young workers would be extremely meaningful and important. At first, the thesis states young workers’ situation in labor force nowadays. Secondly, using matching function to discovery how mismatch can be solved. In examining matching function, we found Mismatch could be improved from ‘unemployment pension’, ‘conditions of layoff’ and ‘improving transmission efficiency of information’. In the end, the thesis discuss with whether the employment strategies followed these 3 factors and how to modify its direction in the future.