Labor Market Structures in Japan: An Analysis of Organizational and Occupational Mobility Patterns

Social Forces ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariah Mantsun Cheng ◽  
Arne L. Kalleberg
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Market Structures

Implications of the Energy Transition on Employment: Today’s Results, Tomorrow’s Needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Ravillard ◽  
J. Enrique Chueca ◽  
Mariana Weiss ◽  
Michelle Carvalho Metanias Hallack
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Recovery Phase ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
And Training

As countries progress in their energy transitions, new investments have the potential to create employment. This is crucial, as countries enter their post-pandemic recovery phase. An opportunity also arises to close the gender gap in the energy sector. However, how much will need to be invested, how many jobs will be created, and for whom, remain empirical questions. Little is also known about the needs of each country and their sectors in terms of future skills and training. The present work sheds light on these questions by carrying out a harmonized firm-level survey on employment in Chile, Uruguay, and Bolivia. Findings are manifold. First, firms in emerging sectors such as energy efficiency, electric mobility, battery, storage, hydrogen, and demand management, create more direct jobs than generation firms, including renewables. Second, these firms also have the potential to create employment that is local, permanent, and direct. Finally, they can contribute to closing the gender gap. However, this employment creation will not come on its own and will not be equal between countries. It will require improving the workforces qualifications and considering each countrys labor market and market structures specificities.

Sex Roles and Internal Labor Market Structures: The "Female" Semi-Professions

1974 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 690-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Grimm ◽  
Robert N. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Internal Labor Market ◽  
Market Structures

Intersegment and Racial Differences in Nonemployment Mobility

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Waddoups ◽  
Djeto Assane
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Labor Market Segmentation ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Theoretical Category

This paper is an exploration of intersegment and racial differences in job-leaving experience, which links ideas found in mobility studies of the labor market segmentation school and the literature which describes unemployment as a dynamic process. Findings suggest that there are significant differences in nonemployment mobility patterns across the segment structure, lending support to researchers who view the labor market as segmented. In addition, after controlling for segmentation, racial differences in nonemployment mobility are revealed, suggesting that race, too, is an important theoretical category that cannot be ignored.

scholarly journals Tarım Sektöründe İşgücü Terminolojisinin Tanımlanması

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Zeki Bayramoğlu ◽  
Merve Bozdemir
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Market Formation ◽  
Total Labor

Labor is the efficient part of the population in production. Total labor supply that occurs subject to the developments in the population and labor demand that shapes according to the economic conditions; are two basic elements of market formation. Labor markets can be defined as a social organization where supply and demand are met and wage occurs. Labor market among all market structures are in such position that is significantly affected by other units of the economy and highly affects them due to its functioning and features. Therefore, during the production process and planning, it is necessary to analyze the labor markets in detail. The agricultural labor market within the labor markets which forms the basis of the economy and contributes to other markets from various sources, needs to be analyzed. The agricultural labor should be analyzed and classified because of the following reasons; the agricultural labor has direct contribution in the use of natural resources and capital elements in agricultural sector; the labor is used more intensively in the unit area in agricultural activities compared to other sectors; transfer of labor is realized from the agricultural sector to other sectors; agricultural labor composes the source of the hidden unemployment and structural unemployment. In addition, labor in agricultural sector should be classified in order to determine the types of labor force to be used in data formation for public institutions / organizations and to facilitate access to the correct decision processes in the projects and policies to be created by contributing to obtaining reliable statistical data. In line with those determined objectives, this study was carried out to determine the types of labor force in the agricultural sector, to combine the conceptual definitions made and to provide semantic integrity in the literature.

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