Effects of Work-Life Balance Programs on Female Employment  

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Kodama, Naomi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 4 no. 4 (2007), page 97-120.
Topik: WORK-LIFE BALANCE; work - life balance; female employment
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Presently in Japan, efforts are being made to introduce “the work - life balance programs,” notably provision of child care leave and family care leave and reduction of long - time work, which aim to balance work and private life and to help workers make their jobs and domestic roles such as parenting compatible. Nevertheless, not much progress has been observed and the effects of these programs are widely questioned. In this paper, I would like to analyze how child care leave, which is one of the work - life balance programs, affects the employment and recruitment of female workers. The results of my analysis imply that companies consider it a cost for their female employees to take child care leave. In Japan, labor demand decreased more radically than ever before due to a long - term economic recession from the latter half of the 1990 s through early 2000 s. In 2002, the unemployment rate in japan reached 5.4 %, a ercord high in the past 30 years, whereas the ratio of effective labor demand to effective labor supply fell to as low as 0.51 fold, worst in the last three decades. Employmnet requrement diffusion index (D. I.) also indicate an extremely strong feeling of labor surplus, suggesting that restrictions presented in the labor demand side mostly determined the balance between labor demand and supply during the period from the latter half of the 1990 s to early 2000 s.

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