Employment adjustment in steel industry: The U.S. and Japan compared

This study purports to compare employment adjustment process in steel industry between the U.S. and Japan in the period 1974-1988. In response to production decline after the Oil Shock of 1973, Japanese steel companies reduced working hours, but not employment. In the 1980s, however, they adopted a new policy: reduction of both employment and working hours. U.S. steel companies reduced both employment and working hours in the 1970s. They changed their adjustment policy in the mid-1980s: reduction of employment and an increase in working hours.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Labor and Employment Relations

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Park, Ho Hwan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Taira, Koji

• Business Administration, Management
• Economics, Labor
• Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Park, Ho Hwan

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9305648
(UMI)AAI9305648

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20594