政府・財界の賃金政策の特徴(グローバル・エコノミー時代の日本経済と最低賃金制,総合研究)

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Japanese wages have been restrained since 1975 and the restraint has become even tighter in the eighties. The organizational and systematical restraint by the Government and financial circles has received the cooperation and collaboration of rightist labor factions. In short, the wage restraint has been maneuvered by a triad consisting of the government, financial circles and right-wing labor unions and it has manifested itself to the general public as "renpai shunto" or a string of unsuccessful annual spring labor negotiations. The annual spring labor negotiations are not the only manifestation of the wage restraint: salaries of government employees have been restrained, as has the minimum wage. In fact, these three manifestations are interrelated. Firstly, wages for employees in private organizations are checked by "controlled spring labor negotiations." The resulting low-level average of wage raises for the private sector is then used as leverage by the National Personnel Authority in the form of friendly advice to keep down any increase in public sector wages. Finally, these two restraints lead to constrained minimum wages. This circle is at the kernel of wage restriction in Japan, and it constitutes a well-laid "wage restriction scheme," which is the true wage policy of the government and financial circles. The controlled labor spring negotiations are based on a correlation of "the standard principle of productivity" held by the Japan Federation of Employers' associations and "the Theory of Economic Conformity" expounded by the right-wing labor unions. Both policies are derived from the pie theory. While the constrained wages in the private sector act as leverage to restrain wages in the public sector, there is one more factor contributing to restraint in the public sector, namely, the administrative reform promoted by the Ad-hoc Committee on Administrative Research. Restraint of the minimum wage is realized by the suppression of regional minimum wages and the reorganization of industrial minimum wages. The current paper discusses these topics in full detail. In other words, it provides an overall analysis of Japanese wage policy. What it presents may be a great surprise to foreigners who knows of the subject only from materials prepared by the Labor Ministry of Japan. We disclose the truth, and those who want to know it should read the paper. The real problem behind trade friction and the excessive appreciation of the yen will also become clear: lengthy and overburdened working hours (though these are not mentioned here) and low wages resulting from the wage restraints.
日本大学の論文
1989-03-20

政府・財界の賃金政策の特徴(グローバル・エコノミー時代の日本経済と最低賃金制,総合研究)

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