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Social Policy for the Coordination of Work and Care in Germany

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26301030
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section海外学術
Research Field Social welfare and social work studies
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

TANAKA Yoko  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (90202176)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥10,140,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,340,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywords労働時間 / ワーク・ライフ・バランス / 仕事とケア / パートタイム / 時間の柔軟化 / ドイツ / 女性労働 / 出産・育児 / ワークライフバランス / 労働政策 / 柔軟化 / ケア / 未来の仕事 / フレックスタイム / 育児休業 / 働き方改革 / パート・タイム / 少子高齢化 / 均等待遇 / 介護 / 人事政策 / 育児
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Japan balancing work and care has been a serious social challenge in recent years. Focusing on Germany, this study explored what kind of institutional conditions, both legally and in practice in corporations, have contributed to improve the basic balance of work and care, in comparison with Japan. In result, not only in the times of childbirth, childbearing, and family care, or working of elder ages, it has been a substantial method to make working hours very flexible, without devaluation of working conditions, except proportionate salaries. Including recurrent studies, this flexible working hours, mainly based on the hope of employees, could be utilized to make better work and care. Recently going back and forth between full-time work and part-time work was also institutionalized.
In Japan, where the short working hours could inevitably lead to precarious working condition, German challenges for balancing work and care could be very suggestive.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究は、日本でのワーク・ライフ・バランス政策を考える上での示唆を与えると同時に、日本で非正規雇用の増加が続いて正規雇用との労働条件の差がついている状況の変革についても大きなヒントを与えている。つまり、育児や介護など、個人や家族の中でケアが求められる状況になった時に、しばしばフルタイムの正規雇用では勤め続けられない状況に陥る日本に対して、正規雇用のまま労働時間を大きく弾力化することによって仕事とケアとを両立できることをドイツは示している。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • 2016 Annual Research Report
  • 2015 Annual Research Report
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (17 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 7 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] re:work, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin/Goettingen Germany/Giessen University(Germany)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] なぜ日本の労働時間はドイツより長いのか2018

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Journal Title

      社会政策

      Volume: 10(1) Pages: 5-24

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 有期雇用の日独比較2018

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Journal Title

      大原社会問題研究所雑誌

      Volume: 718 Pages: 54-76

    • NAID

      120006559682

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] ドイツにおける労働への社会的規制2015

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Journal Title

      社会政策

      Volume: 第7号第1巻 Pages: 18-30

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Gender Inequality in Growing Service Economy? Non-Standard Work in Germany and Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Japanese-German Center Berlin [JDZB] Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JSPS], Colloquium on Equal Participation and Diversity
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Growing the Service Economy with More Precarious Work? Convergence and Divergence in International Comparison2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Harvard Yenching Institute Talk
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ドイツにおける有期雇用の特徴2017

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Organizer
      社会政策学会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ドイツ小売業における企業規模と就業形態の長期的変化-特に女性労働に着目して. 1875~2015年2017

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Organizer
      社会経済史学会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 日本のパート・ドイツのパート2016

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Organizer
      社会政策学会
    • Place of Presentation
      同志社大学(京都府京都市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-16
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Is Part-time Precarious? Comparative Study in Germany and Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin(WZB) Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-09
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] From Small Family Business into Big Business with Non-Regular Workers?2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      World Congress of Business History
    • Place of Presentation
      Bergen (Norway)
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-27
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Historical Development of Part-Time Work. A Comparative Study in Germany and JapanPart-time2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      re:work Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Humboldt University Berlin,Berlin, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-30
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Precarious Work and Flexible Work: Its Definition and Structure in Germany and Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      International Workshop 'Precarity or Flexibility? Changing Realities of Labour in the New Europe'
    • Place of Presentation
      Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-30
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Service industry and the female work in global historical perspective2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      re:work international symposium:Precarious Female Work in Service Sector in International Comparison
    • Place of Presentation
      re:work, Humboldt-Universitaet (Georgenstr.,Berlin, Germany)
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Employment form, flexibility and precarity in German supermarkets. Some comparisons with Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      re:work international symposium:Precarious Female Work in Service Sector in International Comparison
    • Place of Presentation
      re:work, Humboldt-Universitaet (Georgenstr.,Berlin, Germany)
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Soziale Ungleichheit im Einzelhandel in Deutschland2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Vortrag zu Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
    • Place of Presentation
      Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (Mohrenstr.Berlin, Germany)
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-04
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] How Working Conditions of the Female Irregular Workers in the Service Industries in Germany are Regulated in Workplace?2016

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Labor and Employment Association/ American Social Science Alliance
    • Place of Presentation
      San Francisco (USA), Hilton Hotel
    • Year and Date
      2016-01-04
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ドイツのスーパーマーケットにおける働き方と雇用構造2015

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Organizer
      社会政策学会
    • Place of Presentation
      西南学院大学(福岡県福岡市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-01
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Manufacturing growth and the size distribution of industrial workers: Germany and Japan compared2015

    • Author(s)
      Yoko Tanaka & Osamu Saito
    • Organizer
      World Economic History Congress
    • Place of Presentation
      京都国際会館(京都府京都市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-07
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ドイツにおける労働への社会的規制2014

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Organizer
      社会政策学会第129回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      岡山大学(岡山県岡山市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-10-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] ドイツにおける大企業への経済力集中2014

    • Author(s)
      田中洋子
    • Organizer
      経営史学会第50回全国大会
    • Place of Presentation
      文京学院大学(東京都文京区)
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] 仕事と家族の関係はどう変わったか2018

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] International symposium:Precarious Female Work in Service Sector in International Comparison2016

    • Place of Presentation
      re:work, Georgenstr. 23, Berlin, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-03
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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