An Empirical Study on Deregulation of Labor Market and Its Impact

本研究的目的是，在20世纪90年代失业率居高不下、工作不匹配现象严重的日本劳动力市场上，就政策干预对劳动力市场的影响，获得可靠的实证结果。在2000年和2001年，我们调查了政策对女性白色领工人劳动力市场状况的影响，重点是就业业务放松管制的影响。在2001年，我们曾就职业教育政策对IT工程师技能和职业形成的影响进行了问卷调查。主要研究结果如下。(1)20世纪90年代对就业市场的放松管制导致了年轻女性白色领工人劳动条件和就业机会的不平等。(2)20世纪90年代政府在劳动力市场上的政策创新，导致了非市场驱动的就业业务的快速增长。(3)尽管90年代出现了所谓的IT热潮，但IT工程师在劳动力市场上的地位并没有得到改善。信息服务业高技能工程师的培养，关键在于有效的职业教育政策，而不是劳动力市场政策。

The objective of the study was to have reliable empirical findings regarding to the impact of the policy intervention on the Japanese labor market, which was confronted with high unemployment and a serious situation of job mismatch in 1990's. In 2000 and 2001 we had surveyed policy effects on the labor market situation of female white collar workers focusing on the effect of the deregulation of employment business. In 2001, we had done a questioner survey on the effect of the vocational education policies on the skill- and career-formation of IT engineers. The main research findings would be summarized as following.(1) The deregulation of employment business in 1990's has resulted in larger inequality of labor conditions and job opportunity for female young white collar workers.(2) The policy invention in the labor market by the government in the 90's has caused a rapid growth of employment business which was not driven by the market force.(3) In spite of the so-called IT boom in the 90's the positon of IT engineers in the labor market had not been improved. It seems to be critical to have an effective vocational education policy, rather than labor market policy, to develop highly skilled engineers in information service industry.