Abstract
This research aims to investigate latent structures of the Japanese female labor markets. According to prior literatures, the Japanese labor markets have two structures: primary sectors and secondary sectors. As is well known, these structures are composed of sex, academic credentials, employment status, the size of firms, and industries. As prior research did not focus on the diversities of employment status in the female labor markets, this paper employed Japanese Panel Study of Employment Dynamics and revealed two findings. Firstly, about 16 ％ workers with non-standard employment status found in primary sectors indicates that female labor markets aren’t divided by employment status completely. Secondly, there is a segmentation found between workers with non-standard employment status in secondary sectors. These findings suggest the dualism in female labor markets in Japan is different from that in whole labor market.
