The comparative study of welfare regimes, local industrial structures and social stratification and inequality among immigrants

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03822
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Keio University (2017); Sophia University (2015-2016)
• Principal Investigator: Takenoshita Hirohisa 慶應義塾大学, 法学部(三田), 教授 (10402231)
• Research Collaborator: TAGAMI Kota 慶應義塾大学, 大学院社会学研究科 ; OSANAMI Sayaka Malmo University, Institute for Migration, Diversity and Welfare
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 福祉レジーム / 地域労働市場 / 産業構造 / 移民 / 失業 / 労働市場参加 / 制度編成 / 国際比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to explore the ways in which labor market outcomes among immigrants depend on welfare regimes and industrial structures of local labor marekts. To identify the linkage betweeen welfare regimes and socioeconomic outcomes among immigrants, we compare labor force participation of immigrant women across the three countries with different institutional settings, such as Japan, Sweden and the United States. What we found in this study is that the labor force participation of immigrant women is reflected by the familialistic welfare regime which is characterized as the male breadwinner model. Turning to the results concerning the effect of industrial structures of local labor markets, it is shown that immigrants' unemployment increased in the place with a larger concentration of manufucaturing industries with higher export orientation.

Free Research Field

社会学　社会階層論　比較社会学　計量社会学