Testing an agent-based model of the labor market: food-service industry and non-regular employment

Abstract

Japan is suffering from a serious labor shortage due to the economic expansion anddemographic change in the non-regular employment of the labor market. In particular, non-regularemployees account for 80% of employees in the food-service industry is a critical issue. The purpose ofthe present study is to analyze a mechanism of job matching focusing on non-regular employmentthrough agent-based modeling.