Laggards and leaders in labour market reform : comparing Japan and Australia

1: Facing up to the hurdle race - Jenny Corbett, Anne Daly, and Dehne Taylor Section 1: State of the economy since 1990 and implications for labour markets 2: Australia's changing labour market - Dehne Taylor 3: Economic recession and changes in wages of part-time employees in Japan - Tomoko Kishi 4: The changing distribution of working hours in Australia - Mark Wooden and Robert Drago Section 2: Trade and the labour markets 5: Has globalisation increased Australian inequality? - Noel Gaston and Gulasekaran Rajaguru 6: Imports, production, and the Australian worker - Christis G. Tombazos Section 3: Earnings and income distribution 7: A rising tide? Income inequality, the social safety net and the labour market in Australia - Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu and Alicia Payne 8: The changing role of skill, wages, employment and education in the Japanese labour market, 1985-2005 - Hisako Ishii Section 4: Population aging and migration 9: Labour force participation of older workers in Australia and Japan: a tale of two pension systems - Hazel Bateman and John Piggott 10: Australia's skilled migration program and skilled migration between Australia and Japan - Dharmalingam Arunachalam and Ernest Healy 11: Ageing, migration, and female workers in Japan - Junichi Goto Section 5: Youth and women 12: Changing transitions: developments in the labour market and education for Australian youth since the 1980s - Anne Daly and Kenneth Cole 13: Equal employment opportunity, work-life balance and corporate performance in Japan: an analysis based on matched employer-manager-employee data - Akira Kawaguchi