経済の構造変化と家族・雇用 (特集経済システムの変化と家族)

概要

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In the Japanese modern industrialized society, there was a division of labor between men and women in which husbands were the only family members engaging in fulltime jobs and wives did housekeeping work. But this employment-family division of labor is no longer the typical model in Japan, because the employment system that has supported the employment-family model is now changing. One is the lifetime employment that has guaranteed the employment of husbands so far. The other is the seniority-based wages that have guaranteed the necessary income for the family with a wife at home. However, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain both the lifetime employment and the seniority-based wages. This change of the employment system will basically decrease the necessity of family formation, though the family can play the role of a safety net to some extent under the circumstance of lowering employment security. This also means that the family formation becomes at last free from economic restriction.