The Economic Effects of Trade Unions in Japan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 1-12

3. Unions and Social-Economic Background

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 13-39

4. Attitudes of Non-Union Members Towards Unions

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 40-62

5. Union Voice, and Its Effect on Satisfaction and Separation

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 63-78

6. The Effect of Unions on Wages

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 79-92

7. The Effect of Unions and Employee Voice on Wages and Working Conditions: Their Endogeneity Problem

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 93-113

8. The Effect of Voices on Working Conditions and Their Economic Interpretation Based on Enterprise Unionism

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 114-136

9. The Effect of Union Voices on Productivity

   • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

   Pages 137-157

10. The Effect of Trade Unions on Labour Shares and Industrial Relations

    • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

    Pages 158-173

11. Concluding Remarks

    • Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Tomohiko Noda

    Pages 174-178

12. Back Matter

    Pages 179-204

    PDF

The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North America. The book investigates who in Japan joins trade unions and asks whether there is any difference in the satisfaction level of employees, the wage level, and labour turnover rates between union members and non-union members?

• industrial relations
• Japan
• labour
• organization
• organizations
• performance
• productivity
• science and technology
• trade
• unions

• Kyoto University, Japan

  Toshiaki Tachibanaki

• Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan

  Tomohiko Noda

TOSHIAKI TACHIBANAKI is Professor of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan. He has also held several visiting and regular positions at INSEE, OECD, Stanford, Essex, London School of Economics and various government research institutions such as EPA, Bank of Japan, MOF, MITI. He is the author of Wage Determination and Distribution in Japan, Public Policies and the Japanese Economy, Wage Differentials: An International Comparison, and Capital and Labour in Japan.

TOMOHIKO NODA is Lecturer in Economics at Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan. He is the author of The Economics of the Trade Union (in Japanese) and Who Runs Japanese Business?

Policies and ethics