Skip to main content

Career and mobility in japan and the netherlands

A Comparative study of early-career patterns of recently graduated employees

  • Chapter
Competencies, Higher Education and Career in Japan and the Netherlands

Part of the book series: Higher education dynamics ((HEDY,volume 21))

  • 889 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Althauser, R.P. and Kalleberg, A.L. (1981): Firms, Occupations and the Structure of Labour Markets. In: I.Berg (eds.): Sociological Perspectives on Labour Markets. New York: Academic Press, pp. 119–149.

    Google Scholar 

  • Aoki, M. (1988): Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ariga, K., Brunello, G. and Ohkusa, Y. ( 2000): Internal Labour Markets in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Borghans, L., Hughes, G, and Smits, W. (1997): The Occupational Structure of Further and Higher Education in Ireland and the Netherlands. Maastricht: ROA, Maastricht University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chuma, H.(1998): Is Japan’s Long-Term Employment System Changing. In: I. Ohashi and T. Tachibanaki (eds): Internal Labour Markets, Incentives and Employment, Houndsmill e.a.: Macmillan Press, pp. 225–268.

    Google Scholar 

  • Di Prete, T.A., De Graaf, P.M., Luijkx, R., Tahlin, M. and Blossfeld, H.P. (1997): Collectivist versus Individualist Mobility regimes? Structural Change and Job Mobility in Four Countries. American Sociological Journal 103: 318–358.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Doeringer, P.B. and Piore, M. (1971): Internal Labour Markets and Manpower Analysis. Lexington, MA: Heath.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dore, R. (1985): British Factory, Japanese Factory. London: Allen and Unwin . 2nd Edition

    Google Scholar 

  • Dore, R., Bounine-Cabale, J. and Topiola, K. (1989): Japan at work: Markets, Management and Flexibility. Paris: OECD.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dore, R. and Sako, M. (1989): How the Japanese Learn to Work. London: Routledge

    Google Scholar 

  • European Comission (ed., 1999): Continuing Training in Enterprises: Facts and Figures: A Report on the Results of the Continuing VocationalTtraining Survey carried out in the Enterprises of the Members States of the European Union in 1994 (CVTS), Luxembourg

    Google Scholar 

  • Genda, Y. and Kurosawa, M. (2001): Transition from School to Work in Japan. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 15: 465–488.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Genda, Y. and Rebick, M.E. (2000): Japanese Labour in the 1990s: Stability and Stagnation. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 16: 85–102.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heijke, H. and Koeslag, M. (1999): The Labour-Market Position of University Education and Higher Vocational Education in Economics and Business Administration: A Comparison. Education Economics 7: 259–276.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ishida, H., Spilerman, S. and Su, K.H. (1997): Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organisations. American Sociological Review 62: 866–882.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kandel, E. and Pearsons, N.D. (2001): Flexibility versus Commitment in Personnel Management. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 15: 515–556.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Karya, T. (1998): From High School and College to Work in Japan: Meritocracy through institutional and semi-institutional linkages. In: Y. Shavit and W, Muller (eds.): From School to Work. Oxford, Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karya, T. and Rosenbaum, J. (1995): Institutional Linkages between Education and Work as Quasi-Internal Labour Markets. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 14: 99–134.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kato, T. (2001): The End of Lifetime Employment in Japan? Evidence form National Surveys and Field Research. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 15: 489–514.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Koike, K. (1996): The Economics of Work in Japan. Tokyo: LTCB Library Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lazear, E.P. and Rosen, S. (1990): Male-Female Wage Differentials in Job Ladders. Journal of Labour Economics 8: S 106–S123.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lincoln, J.R and Nakata, Y. (1997), The Transformation of the Japanese Employment System. Work and Occupations 24: 33–55.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mincer, J. and Polachek, S. (1974): Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women. Journal of Political Economy 82: S 76–S108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Morishima, M. (1996) The Evolution of White-Collar Human Resource Management in Japan, in: D. Lewis, B.E. Kaufman, and D. Sockell (eds.): Advances in Industrial and Labour Relations 7: 145–176, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mühlau, P. (1999a): Intra- and Inter-Employer Mobility in the Netherlands. Mimeo. Groningen: Department of Economics.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mühlau P. (1999b): The Wage Structure in the Netherlands and the US, 1979–1996. A Decomposition Exercise. Mimeo. Groningen: Department of Economics.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mühlau P. (2002): Satei: Myth and ceremony? MOVeS working paper, No. 5, Groningen: Department of Sociology.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nakata, Y. and Tahihiro, R. (2002): Employment and Wages of Female Japanese Workers: Past, Present, and Future. Industrial Relations 41: 521–47.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ohashi, I. and Teruyama, H. (1998): Intra-Firm Mobility, Wages and Promotions in the Japanese Employment System. In: I. Ohashi and T. Tachibanaki (eds): Internal Labour Markers, Incentives and Employment, Houndsmill e.a.: Macmillan Press, pp. 269–299.

    Google Scholar 

  • Okuno-Fujihara, M. (1987): Monitoring Cost, Agency Relationships and Equilibrium Modes of Labour Contracts. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 1: 147–67.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • OECD (1999): Employment Protection and Labour Market Performance. Emploment Outlook. Paris: OECD, pp. 50–132.

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2002): Education at a Glance. Paris: OECD.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rebick , M.E. (1993): The Persistence of Firm-size Earnings Differentials and Labour Market segmentation in Japan. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 7: 132–56.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rebick, M.E. (2000): The Importance of Networks in the Market for University Graduates in Japan: A Longitudinal Analysis of Hiring Patterns. Oxford Economic Papers 52: 471–496

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rebick, M.E. (2001): Japanese Labour Markets: Can We Expect Significant Changes? In: M. Blomstrom, B. Gangnes and S.J. LaCroix (eds.): Japan’s New Economy: Continuity and Change in the 21st Century Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3120–141.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenbaum, J.E. (1979): Tournament Mobility: Career Pattern in a Corporation. Aministrative Science Quarterly 24: 220–241.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sakamoto, A. and Powers, D. (1995): Education and the Dual Labour Market for Japanese Men. American Sociological Reviewt 60: 222–246.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sato, H. (1997): Human Resource Management in Large Firms: the Case of White-Collar Graduate Employees. In: M. Sako and H.Sato (eds): Japanese Labour and Management in Transition, 104–30, London and New York: LSE/Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Van der Velden, R.K.W., Van de Loo, P.J.E., Meng, C.M. (2006, this volume): University and College Differences in the Returns to Education in Japan and the Netherlands.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolbers, M.H.J., De Graaf, P.M., Ultee, W.C. (2001): Trends in the Occupational Returns to Educational Credentials in the Dutch Labour Market: Changes in Structures and in the Association? Acta Sociologica 44: 5–19.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2007 Springer

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Mühlau, P. (2007). Career and mobility in japan and the netherlands. In: Allen, J., Inenaga, Y., Velden, R.v., Yoshimoto, K. (eds) Competencies, Higher Education and Career in Japan and the Netherlands. Higher education dynamics, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6044-1_8

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics