Labor market segmentation and migrant workers in Japan

The objective of this thesis is to offer an alternative to the conventional “push and pull” model of transnational labor migration to analyze the sudden inflow of migrant workers to Japan since the mid-1980’s. Michael Piore’s theory of labor market segmentation is used as a framework for the analysi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niki, Satomi
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44413
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222009-040608/