Job Security Concern among Temporary Agency Workers in Japan  

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Ono, Akiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 9 no. 3 (2012), page 30-58.
Topik: Job Security; Employment Teenagers; Short-Term Temporary Agency Worker; Unemployment Rate
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This paper conducts factor analysis regarding the choice of temporary agency work, particularly short-term work, short-term temporary workers’ job security concern and their hope to become regular employees, and complements the findings with an analysis of the hearing survey results. The period covered by the analysis is the time of recession that followed the failure of major investment bank Lehman Brothers (Lehman Shock) in 2008, when the supply of jobs shrank rapidly. My analysis found that the most typical short-term temporary agency worker is a woman in her 20s or 30s with a junior or senior high school diploma who engages in a sales, manufacturing or light manual labor job, rather than a clerical job. It also found that the typical short-term temporary agency worker works in prefectures where the unemployment rate is high and has a post-school history of illness that could affect working life. The factor analysis regarding job security concern showed that temporary agency workers with a short-term contract of less than three months are more prone to be concerned about job security than those with a long-term contract of more than one year. It also indicated that whereas workers’ hope to become regular employees is significantly affected by job security concern, people who realistically expect to become regular employees are less prone to be concerned about job security. Moreover, the analysis found that short-term temporary agency workers who realistically expect to become regular employees typically work under a contract with an employment period of more than one year, while those who hope to become regular employees but who realistically expect to continue temporary agency work or who have no idea of what employment arrangement they will be working under three years later typically work under a contract of less than one year. The hope to become a regular employee stems largely from job security concern. Therefore, first of all, it is essential for the government to take measures to ease job security concern, such as promoting the extension of the contractual employment period. In addition, employers need to provide jobs in ways that enhance workers’ vocational skills, while temporary staff agencies should assign jobs in ways that enable workers to climb the career ladder.

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