出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：This Special Edition highlights the aspect of age, with particular focus on work ers positioned between younger and older age groups, defined here as "intermediate-age work- ers." Specifically, intermediate-age workers are those between around their mid-30s and their 40s. Our theme will be to consider labor problems typically experienced by this age group in Japan. In this country, the debate on labor policies has tended to focus on younger and older age groups in recent years. In the policy debate on these age groups, intermedi- ate-age workers have been included for purposes of comparison, but attempts to understand this age group in itself are relatively rare. However, intermediate-age workers have many important roles to play, both as core human resources in the workplace and as providers of childcare and family care in the home. Intermediate-age workers are approaching the mid- way period in their vocational careers. For that reason, there must be typical issues faced by this age group in connection with working styles and careers, as well as contemporary is- sues associated with changes in the labor market. In this Special Edition, we will study the- se broad-ranging issues affecting intermediate-age workers in Japan from a variety of per- spectives.
