Laggards and Leaders in Labour Market Reform

Jenny Corbett is Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University, Australia; and a Fellow of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Anne Daly is Research Associate at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM); and Director of the Centre for Labour Market Research, University of Canberra, Australia. Hisa Matsushige is Professor and Associate Dean at the Osaka School of International Public Policies, Osaka University, Japan. Dehne Taylor is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. Prior to this he was Manager of the Labour Market Unit at the Australian Treasury.

• 1. Facing up to the Hurdle Race Section 1: State of the Economy since 1990 and Implications for Labour Markets 2. Australia’s changing Labour Market 3. Economic Recession and changes in Wages of Part-Time Employees in Japan 4. The changing Distribution of Working Hours in Australia Section 2: Trade and the Labour Markets 5. Has Globalisation Increased Australian Inequality? 6. Imports, Production, and the Australian Worker Section 3: Earnings and Income Distribution 7. A Rising Tide? Income Inequality, the Social Safety Net and the Labour Market in Australia 8. The changing Role of Skill, Wages, Employment and Education in the Japanese Labour Market, 1985-2005 Section 4: Population Aging and Migration 9. Labour Force Participation of Older Workers in Australia and Japan: A Tale of Two Pension Systems 10. Australia’s Skilled Migration Program and Skilled Migration between Australia and Japan 11. Ageing, Migration, and Female Workers in Japan Section 5: Youth and Women 12. Changing Transitions: Developments in the Labour Market and education for Australian Youth since the 1980s 13. Equal Employment Opportunity, Work-Life Balance and Corporate Performance in Japan: An Analysis based on Matched Employer–Manager–Employee Data