Japan Is Struggling To Overcome Labor Shortages And Intensifying The Introduction Of Foreign Labor Force

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< p > low fertility and aging are the fundamental reasons for Japan's labor shortage.

In order to alleviate the problems caused by the shortage of labor, Japan has introduced measures to encourage women and the elderly to get employed, and to attract foreign workers. However, the analysis shows that these measures are not effective in the short term.

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According to the latest data of < p > < a href= > http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp > < < /a > > the Ministry of labour and welfare in May, Japan has 109 jobs for every 100 job seekers, and recruitment and job search have reached a new high since 22 years ago.

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< p > service industry, manufacturing industry and construction industry bear the brunt of the shortage of manpower.

Cheap chain restaurants "eating their homes" temporarily closed about 200 shops because of the lack of staff.

Japanese pubs and houses will also close about 60 shops in the current business year, accounting for 10% of the total number of shops. One of the reasons is that there are not enough part-time employees.

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< p > the number of recruitment posts for construction workers in Tokyo is 5.56 times the number of job seekers, driven by rising housing prices and preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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< p > because of the shortage of labor force, a special phenomenon in Japan's economy is that the unemployment rate is at a low level of 4%, but the economy is in a doldrums.

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< p > low fertility and aging are the fundamental reasons for Japan's labor shortage.

In the past 20 years, the labour force in Japan has decreased by 7 million 640 thousand.

According to the National Institute of social security and population studies of Japan, if the fertility rate is now at 1.43, by 2060, the labour force aged between 15 and 64 will be reduced from 40% to 44 million 180 thousand in 2010.

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Another reason that led to the phenomenon of "living without people" is that after the bubble economy burst in the 90s of last century, Japanese enterprises changed the traditional "lifelong employment system" to cut costs, and used temporary workers or contract workers in large numbers. P

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< p > at present, about 40% of the Japanese labour market is informal employees.

Yamada Ku, chief economist of the Japan comprehensive research institute, told the newspaper reporter that according to the general law of economics, insufficient supply will lead to higher labor prices.

The labour market in Japan has long been caught in the paradox of "understaffed wages". The main reason is that a large number of informal employees with low wage levels have been widely used.

According to statistics, 56% of men and 80% of women have annual income of 2 million yen (1 yen or 0.06 yuan), which is far below the average annual income of 4 million 460 thousand employees.

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< p > the importance of quality of life has also led many young people to choose "odd jobs".

Ms. Chuan village, a coach in a driving school in Tokyo, told the reporter that he was originally a full-time employee of the driving school. Because he couldn't stand the intensity of work for up to 11 hours a day, he volunteered to change to a part-time job.

Compared with the formal employees, the summer and year-end bonuses are less, and the pension insurance payment standard is also reduced by half.

In May this year, only 40% of Japan's National Recruitment positions were formally employed.

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< p > Japan now has a population of about 128 million. In response to the reduction of the labour force, the Japanese government set up a mid long term national goal of "50 years' population remaining at around 100 million" in June this year.

This is the first time the Japanese government has put forward a clear goal of maintaining population growth.

At the same time, Japan will build an "age free and gender based labor system" to encourage women and the elderly to get employed.

Japan will also set a new index different from the current labor statistics, and plan to set the age range of the working population between 20 and 70 years old, so as to encourage the elderly over 65 years old to work.

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< p > the Japanese government launched a series of policies to encourage female employment in June this year.

It includes expanding the conservation facilities, receiving 400 thousand children's entry, raising maternity leave wages from 1/2 to 2/3, requiring listed companies to disclose female directors' information, and publishing outstanding female managers on the cabinet website.

Because of the traditional sense of social division of labor, many Japanese women leave the workplace after giving birth to their first child.

The employment rate of Japanese women is 62%, which is lower than that of the other 7 countries in the G 7 countries.

The president of the International Monetary Fund, Lagarde, has urged Japan to create a more suitable environment for women.

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< p > Japan also intensified the introduction of foreign labor force.

In April this year, Japan tried to relax entry procedures and restrictions for foreign domestic and construction workers in the strategic zones of Tokyo, Fukuoka and other countries.

The "practice system for foreigners" has been extended to 68 industries, extending the retention period of foreign laborers from 3 years to 5 years.

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< p > according to statistics, as of 2011, about 690 thousand foreigners were working in Japan, accounting for 1% of Japan's labor force, the lowest among the developed countries.

According to the latest statistics of Japan's general ministry, as of October 2013, there were 717 thousand foreign labor force in Japan, an increase of 35 thousand compared with the same period last year, an increase of 5.1%.

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The foreign labor force introduced before Japan mainly concentrated on the "highly skilled talents" in the field of education and research, P.

At present, home economics and construction are the most scarce industries.

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