Corporate Transfers for Dual-Career Couples: From Gendered Tenkin to Gender-Equal Negotiations?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko FUJITA
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Dual Career Couples ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Japanese Firms ◽  
Dual Careers ◽  
Domestic Roles

Abstract This qualitative-research-based article discusses corporate transfers of dual-career couples in large Japanese firms. In Japan’s internal labour market, inter-regional transfers, or tenkin, are de rigueur in many companies for purposes of training and promotion of long-term employees. Their implementation is often taken for granted because of the gendered assumption that only men are subject to tenkin. Women, who take responsibility in domestic roles, are not able to accept tenkin. Rather, they are either exempted from tenkin regardless of their wishes or forced to remain in secondary positions that require no tenkin. This gendered division of labour in tenkin has hampered women’s promotion in Japanese workplaces and hindered dual-career couples from achieving dual careers through tenkin. Using Acker’s (1990) theory of gendered organisations and Nemoto’s (2016) study of gendered practices in Japanese firms, this article elucidates the processes by which these cultural, gendered corporate transfers (a) reproduce gendered organisations, (b) are changing from dictates to negotiations in some companies where female workers are given more opportunities alongside intensification of the firms’ global competition, but (c) nevertheless continue to be in tension with dual-career families in contemporary Japan. To make a dual-career-couple model mainstream, the labour market structure that views corporate transfers as an absolute necessity needs radical change.

Seismic Soundoff

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 528-528
Author(s):  
Andrew Geary
Keyword(s):  
Dual Career ◽  
Dual Career Couples ◽  
Dual Careers ◽  
Work And Life

How can couples best navigate dual careers? How do you balance work and life throughout a career? How can dual-career couples benefit companies? Eve Sprunt, author of A Guide for Dual-Career Couples, answers these questions and shows how management and individuals alike can activate the power of dual-career couples. The following is an excerpt from episode 81 of SEG's podcast, Seismic Soundoff. Listen to the full episode at https://seg.org/podcast/post/9041 .

Arbeitsmarkt vor alten und neuen Herausforderungen: Die Covid-19-Pandemie und was danach kommt?

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 749-770
Author(s):  
Ulrich Walwei
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Herausforderungen der sich gerade vollziehenden „transformativen Rezession“ für den Arbeitsmarkt. Nach Jahren eines scheinbar unaufhaltsamen Aufschwungs hat die Corona-Krise den Arbeitsmarkt schwer getroffen. Erwerbstätigkeit und sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung bewegten sich erstmals seit Jahren wieder nach unten und die Arbeitslosigkeit schnellte nach oben. Zusätzlich erreichte die Nutzung der Kurzarbeit ein immenses Allzeithoch. Gleichzeitig vollzieht sich eine Transformation der Volkswirtschaft. Es zeichnete sich schon seit längerem ab, dass Demographie, Digitalisierung, Klimaschutz und Verschiebungen in der internationalen Arbeitsteilung größere Veränderungen für die Wirtschaft und den Arbeitsmarkt nach sich ziehen werden. Theoretisch-konzeptionelle Überlegungen zeigen, dass aus heutiger Sicht Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt noch längere Zeit benötigen, bis wieder Vorkrisenstände erreicht werden können. Dabei liegt der Schlüssel für die Erholung nicht wie sonst üblich vorwiegend im Spielfeld der Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, sondern auch und gerade im Bereich des Gesundheitsschutzes. Die Pandemie wird zudem dafür sorgen, dass sich die Transformation der Wirtschaft teilweise beschleunigt. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Digitalisierung, deren wirtschaftliche Vorteile während der Krise besonders zum Vorschein kamen. Andere dringliche Aufgaben wie etwa der Klimaschutz bestehen unabhängig von der Pandemie weiter fort. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird es aus arbeitsmarktpolitischer Sicht in der nahen Zukunft darauf ankommen, sowohl die Krise als auch die wirtschaftliche Transformation zu adressieren, am besten durch eine möglichst geschickte Kombination aus einer gleichermaßen konjunkturorientierten und investiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Abstract: The Labour Market Facing Old and New Challenges: The Covid-19-Pandemic, what’s Next? The paper discusses the challenges of the current “transformative recession” for the labour market. After years of an almost unstoppable upswing, the corona-crisis smashed the labour market. Employment went down significantly and unemployment increased. In addition, short-time work reached an all-time-peak. At the same time, the economy is confronted with a process of continuous transformation. In recent years, it became clearly apparent that demography, digitization, climate protection and changes in the international division of labour cause fundamental changes for the economy as well as the labour market. Conceptual and theoretical considerations show, that both, economy and the labour market, will take a long time to reach pre-crisis levels. However, the key for the recovery is not mainly located in the playing field of economic and fiscal policy but in the area of health protection. In addition, the pandemic will accelerate the economic transformation. This is obvious regarding digitization, which reveals its economic advantages during the pandemic. Other urgent challenges such as climate protection will definitely remain. Against this background, it will be decisive for labour market policies to address the crisis and the transformation at the same time, preferably by an intelligent combination of measures oriented at short-time impacts and long-term investment.

Family Size, Satisfaction, and Productivity in Dual-Career Couples

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Bryson ◽  
Jeff B. Bryson ◽  
Marilyn F. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Dual Career Couples ◽  
The Family ◽  
Full Time Employment ◽  
Final Degree

Responses by 196 couples—in which both spouses were members of the American Psychological Association—to a series of questions regarding domestic satisfaction, job satisfaction, and productivity were examined as a function of years since final degree and number of children in the family. There were consistent differences between the sexes in responses to these questions, indicating that wives were less satisfied and less productive than husbands in these couples. However, prior differences between groups in age, years since final degree, and rate of full-time employment disallowed any meaningful interpretations of these differences. Family size was found to influence satisfaction with time available for domestic activities, job, and avocations. Significant interactions indicated that these effects were more severe for the wife than for the husband, indicating that wives in dual-career couples bear a disproportionate share of the burden for child care. Influences of family size on satisfaction with rate of advancement and freedom to set long-term career goals were also noted.

On Dual Career Couples

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 737-737
Author(s):  
Karen Prager
Keyword(s):  
Dual Career ◽  
Dual Career Couples

Dual-career couples

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne S. Benson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dual Career ◽  
Dual Career Couples

scholarly journals Skilled Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: An Analysis of Employment, Income and Occupational Status

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3428
Author(s):  
Nahikari Irastorza ◽  
Pieter Bevelander
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Skilled Immigrants ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
Employment Rates

In a globalised world with an increasing division of labour, the competition for highly skilled individuals—regardless of their origin—is growing, as is the value of such individuals for national economies. Yet the majority of studies analysing the economic integration of immigrants shows that those who are highly skilled also have substantial hurdles to overcome: their employment rates and salaries are lower and they face a higher education-to-occupation mismatch compared to highly skilled natives. This paper contributes to the paucity of studies on the employment patterns of highly skilled immigrants to Sweden by providing an overview of the socio-demographic characteristics, labour-market participation and occupational mobility of highly educated migrants in Sweden. Based on a statistical analysis of register data, we compare their employment rates, salaries and occupational skill level and mobility to those of immigrants with lower education and with natives. The descriptive analysis of the data shows that, while highly skilled immigrants perform better than those with a lower educational level, they never catch up with their native counterparts. Our regression analyses confirm these patterns for highly skilled migrants. Furthermore, we find that reasons for migration matter for highly skilled migrants’ employment outcomes, with labour migrants having better employment rates, income and qualification-matched employment than family reunion migrants and refugees.

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