Research Activities
Research Projects
FY 2006/2007 Research Topic: 4-07
Employment and Social Security in the Newly Industrializing Countries
Outline
Since the 1980s, the influence of globalization has become overwhelming, and at the same time, industrial relations have tended to become more flexible, or at least making them more flexible has been debated in the newly industrializing countries. On the other hand, we can observe an increase in the labor force in the informal sector, referred to as the phenomenon of informalization of the formal sector. This research group aims to clarify the situation of increased flexibility of industrial relations and the labor and social security reforms related to it.
Our research group has the three following concrete objectives: (1) to clarify the transformation of industrial relations after the 1980s in the regions; (2) to clarify the relationship between the transformation of industrial relations and existing social security systems or the welfare state; and (3) to analyze the factors of the political economy which cause these transformations.
Our research group has the three following concrete objectives: (1) to clarify the transformation of industrial relations after the 1980s in the regions; (2) to clarify the relationship between the transformation of industrial relations and existing social security systems or the welfare state; and (3) to analyze the factors of the political economy which cause these transformations.
Period
April 2005 - March 2007
Organizer
Members of the Research Project
USAMI Koichi
MURAKAMI Kaoru
MAKINO Kumiko
UETANI Naokatsu
KAMIMURA Yasuhiro (Associate Professor, Hosei University)
YOSHIMURA Mako (Professor, Hosei University)
SAWADA Yukari (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
HATA Keiko (Waseda University)
KIM Jo-Seol (Shinshu University)
MURAKAMI Kaoru
MAKINO Kumiko
UETANI Naokatsu
KAMIMURA Yasuhiro (Associate Professor, Hosei University)
YOSHIMURA Mako (Professor, Hosei University)
SAWADA Yukari (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
HATA Keiko (Waseda University)
KIM Jo-Seol (Shinshu University)
Publications
- USAMI Koichi and MAKINO Kumiko eds., Shinko-Fukushi Kokkaron: Asia to Latin America no Hikaku Kenkyu [Basic Information and Statistics for Research on Employment and Social Policy in the Newly Industrializing Countries], Research Report, Institute of Developing Economies, March 2006 (in Japanese)
- The final results were published in I.D.E. Research Series (in Japanese) in 2007.
Information of the Research Project
- "Special Issue: Comparative Studies of Social Security Systems in Asia and Latin America," The Developing Economies, vol.42 no.2, 2004.
- Koichi Usami, "Latin American Social Security Reform in the 1990s," in The Journal of Social Science, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, vol.55, no.1., 2003.
- Kumiko Makino, Social Security Policy Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Focus on Basic Income Grant
(280KB), Center for Civil Society Research Report No.11, Durban: Center for Civil Society, January 2004.
