Japan's demographic crisis

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > If you take the male population 18-30 of Japanese, unemployment 
>is 2-3 times
>>  the reported rates. Some of these guys are getting pretty scary. I wish I
>>  had an Asian face instead of a S. Italian one when I meet up with them.
>
>companies are firing the men and re-hiring women as a 
>flexible-cheap-part time work force. women seem to be less 
>unemployed now than men...

Most likely, the jobs of men who were fired simply disappeared or 
added to those of remaining workers, rather than given to newly hired 
part-time women workers:

*****   4. Women and the recession

Rising unemployment rate among young men and women and older men
· The unemployment rate in Japan has been rising since 1993.  In 
particular, unemployment rates are high among both men and women, for 
example, since 1998 the unemployment rate for men has risen to an 
all-time high of 4.5%, and for women to 4.4%.

· A look at changes in the unemployment rate over the last ten years 
by age group reveals that unemployment is increasing among young men 
and women and older men.

<http://www.gender.go.jp/danjyo/english/plan2000/1999/p1c204.html>   *****
-- 
Yoshie

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