Research into Job Placement Business in Private Sector: An Approach from "Sociology of Labor Market"

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03839
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: Ogawa Shinichi 横浜国立大学, 大学院国際社会科学研究院, 教授 (30334618)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 労働市場の社会学 / 民営職業紹介 / 高度ホワイトカラー / 経営管理者 / 科学技術者 / 人材銀行 / 求職方法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this research is, based on approach of "sociology of labor market," to explore the historical development of job placement business for highly advanced white-collar workers in Japan, with comparison of the public sector and the private sector. In this research, highly advanced white-collar workers refer to managers, scientists, and engineers. By deregulation from the end of the 1990s on, Japanese private job placement business became liberalized in principle. However, job placement business for highly advanced white-collar workers was already started not only by public companies but also the government. In conclusion, private business and governmental business did not compete with each other. Rather, they coexisted, because their targets of companies offering jobs and job seekers differed.

Free Research Field

産業・労働社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

転職者の割合が大きく変化しているとはいえないものの、民営職業紹介事業は1990年代末以降、成長基調で推移してきた。民営職業紹介事業が今後、雇用流動化を促すのか、また、硬直的とも評されることの多い日本的雇用慣行へ、どのような影響を与えるのかについて検討するうえで、本研究は基礎的な知見の一端を提供している。また、本研究では、業界の成長に影響を与えうる要因について、経済的、法律的な側面だけでなく、業界草創期の関係者のキャリアの観点からも解明を試みている。業界の成長を経済的・法律的な要因のみに還元できないことを、本研究は示したともいえる。