S D Kang
S D Kang
"After presenting the three major types of migrant workers currently in South Korea--professional employees, technical trainees and illegal workers--this article examines the role of contractors and other middle-men to expose the possibilit...
T Nagayama
T Nagayama
"This article presents the basic characteristics of the foreign workers recruiting policy in Japan, which consists [of] barring entry to unskilled workers, and confronts it with the actual tolerance for a large number of illegal unskilled w...
Labor contracting in international migration: the Japanese case and implications for Asia [0.03%]
国际劳工外包与移民：日本的情况及其对亚洲的启示
Y Okunishi
Y Okunishi
"This paper is intended to be a prelude of a study on intermediaries in international migration in Asia, based primarily on the Japanese case. In the next section, I introduce the legal framework of labor contracting in Japan.... In Section...
P M Martin
P M Martin
"The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of labor brokering or contracting that helps to explain why employers turn to foreign workers to fill certain vacant jobs, and how the presence of foreign workers brought to a country by ...
Prospects for cooperative management of international migration in the 21st century [0.03%]
21世纪国际移民协作管理展望
M J Miller,P M Martin
M J Miller
"This essay attempts, first, to identify patterns and trends from an overview of the modern history of international migration. It examines, then, aspects of human agency and macro-systematic factors to sift for clues as to the future role ...
S Wang
S Wang
"This research note presents trends and data on China's labor export from 1979-1991. By 1990, China had deployed over 400,000 workers in 139 countries and regions, with labor export becoming an important source of foreign exchange. Data inc...
H Mori
H Mori
"This research note presents data on trends in foreign workers in Japan, and reviews recent policy changes relating to these workers. Trends from 1973-1993 are reviewed and data for recent years include disaggregation by country of origin, ...
Labor markets of Japanese-descended workers and foreign trainees in Japan [0.03%]
日本归侨工人与外国训练生的劳动市场状况研究
Y Okunishi,T Sano
Y Okunishi
"This article first presents a classification of foreign workers in Japan, trends in their numbers, and the legal framework pertaining to them. This is followed by a focus on workers of Japanese descent and foreign trainees, and the means b...
N Oishi
N Oishi
"This article examines the Japanese training system for foreign workers from developing countries. While providing foreign trainees with the opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge at enterprises, the system concurrently serves as an ...
W B Kim
W B Kim
"The 1980s witnessed increasing regional interdependence in Asia through trade and investment. Increasing flows of labor within the region, however, raise questions about three important issues: (1) the assumption that trade, investment and...