IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eti/rdpsjp/10042.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Instability of Employment and the Lack of Work Life Balance: From the viewpoint of compensating wage differentials (Japanese)

Author

Listed:
  • MORIKAWA Masayuki

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present survey-based evidence on the compensating wage differentials for the instability of employment and the lack of work-life-balance in Japan. First, we present facts on the individual evaluation of the size of fair compensating differentials. Then we estimate the effects of working hours and wages on the job satisfaction index. The fair compensating wage differentials for the instability of employment and lack of work-life-balance are both between 10% and 20%. The actual relative wages of nonstandard workers may be too low. On the other hand, if "short-hour regular jobs" are characterized by strong employment protection and work-life-balance, a relative wage discount of 10% to 20% coincides with the average workers' perception of fairness, which will contribute to the adoption and diffusion of work-life-balance jobs. Working hours have a negative effect on job satisfaction and wage levels have a positive effect, but the magnitude of the effects is different between male and female workers. Male workers have a strong preference for wages. Overall, in order to achieve diversity of work, flexibility of working hours should be accompanied by wage setting flexibility.

Suggested Citation

  • MORIKAWA Masayuki, 2010. "Instability of Employment and the Lack of Work Life Balance: From the viewpoint of compensating wage differentials (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese) 10042, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:10042
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/10j042.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tadashi Sakai & Naomi Miyazato, 2014. "Who values the family-friendly aspects of a job? Evidence from the Japanese labour market," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 65(3), pages 397-413, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:10042. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: TANIMOTO, Toko (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rietijp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.