雇用をめぐる規制と規制緩和の対抗軸(<特集>市場と規制の現代的相克)

抄録

While Japan has encountered the major employment crisis, it is non-regular employees on whom the job cuts have fallen the hardest. It has become clear that many prominent employers openly discriminate against those non-regular workers in terms of pay and workers' protection. Today mass of non-regular workers are synonym for working poor. In the middle of the employment crisis, we should not work out a solution at the sacrifice of those non-regular workers, especially agency workers. Now we should convert from the Japanese old-fashioned seniority system. In order to survey prospects of the conversion from the old system we need a novel framework of analysis. From my perspective, ongoing measures to promote employment taken by the Government are nothing but a temporary makeshift and are by no means aiming at a radical system change. European countries currently adopted positive manpower development policy and I think it necessary for Japan to adapt such policy to its labor market. Based on the new diagram for analysis this paper provides a basic framework for the conversion.