An Empirical research for skill development and carrier ladder of fixed-term employment contracts and dispatched workers

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23730473
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: NISHINO Fumiko 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 准教授 (40386652)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 技能形成 / 有期雇用 / 若年労働者 / ITエンジニア / 人事管理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is focused on skill development of fixed-term employment contracts, dispatched workers and regular workers in ICT industry. Research interviews with ICT companies and employees were conducted. It revealed structure of ICT industry, labour market, skill development of regular employees in big firms (mainly they deal with upper process) and middle-sized firms(mainly they deal with lower process),utilization of temporally workers in both-sized firms. In comparison to Korean firm and Chinese firm, the structure of labour market of ICT industry in Japan has hierarchy characteristics.

Free Research Field

雇用関係の社会学　雇用政策　人事管理