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Labour Market Liberalisation after the Lehman Crisis: Comparing France, Germany and Japan
December 14 - December 15, 2018
Presentations
Day 1 December 14th (Friday)
9:45 A.M. - 10 A.M.
Welcome
10 A.M. - 12 P.M.
Panel 1: Changes in Public Sentiment and their Implications for Labour Market Policy
Chair: Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Marc Brazzill and Hideko Magara, Waseda University, Yuki Yanai, Kochi University of
Technology
Nate Breznau, University of Bremen
Paul Marx, University of Duisburg-Essen
Chung-Yang Yeh, Soochow University
12 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch Break
1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Panel 2: Post-Lehman Labour Policy: Priority on Economic Growth or Social Protection?
Chair: Jun Imai, Sophia University
Daniel Clegg and Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh
Steffen Heinrich, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
Shinji Kojima, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Machiko Osawa, Japan’s Women University
3:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M.
Coffee Break
3:45 P.M. - 5:45 P.M.
Panel 3: Labour Markets and Institutional Change
Chair: Sebastien Lechevalier, EHESS
Bruno Amable, University of Geneva
Werner Eichhorst, IZA and University of Bremen, and Verena Tobsch, INES Berlin
Stefan Heeb, University of Geneva
Takaaki Suzuki, Ohio University
5:45 P.M. - 6 P.M.
Coffee Break
6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
Labour Market Liberalisation after the Lehman Crisis: Comparing France, Germany and Japan
Bruno Amable, University of Geneva
Paul Marx, University of Duisburg-Essen
Mari Miura, Sophia University in Tokyo
10 years after the collapse of the investment firm Lehman Brothers, a shift in discourses on structural labour market reforms is becoming ever more visible. Whereas before the crash many experts and policymakers had argued that market-oriented reforms were necessary to improve labour market and economic performance, the social costs of liberalisation now seem to attract much more attention.
Yet the jury is still out on whether this discursive shift has prompted a similar change in policy. While policies emphasising social equality appear to have gained in popularity (e.g. minimum wages, equal treatment for non-standard workers), structural reforms echoing liberalisation are also still on the agenda (e.g. French reforms of labour contract law).
This event aims to shed light on this mixed picture of continuity and change by bringing together three renowned scholars from France, Germany, and Japan for a roundtable discussion. They will discuss whether and to what extent the Lehman crisis (a.k.a. the global financial crisis) has indeed led to a lasting reorientation of labour market policy and politics.
This DIJ Roundtable is part of two day workshop jointly organised by the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), l’EHESS, Paris and the Japanese-German Centre Berlin (JDZB). The full programme of the workshop is available here.
Bruno Amable is professor of economics at the University of Geneva. He is an expert on the varieties of capitalism, institutions and their influence on innovation and industries. In recent years, he has further expanded his research focus on labour markets, European structural reforms and employment policy.
Paul Marx is professor of political science and socio-economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and affiliated with the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies and the IZA Institute of Labour Economics. His interests include social and political inequality, political behaviour, and welfare state and labour market analysis.
Mari Miura is professor of political science at Sophia University in Tokyo and academic advisor to the All-partisan Caucus for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Politics. She is well-known for her research on gender equality and labour politics in Japan. She is the author of Welfare through work: Conservative ideas, partisan dynamics, and social protection in Japan (Cornell, 2012).
7:30 P.M.
Buffet reception
Day 2 December 15th (Saturday)
10 A.M. - 12 P.M.
Panel 4: Changing Growth Models and their Social and Political Implications
Chair: Mari Yamauchi, Doshisha University
Saori Shibata, University of Leiden
Yves Tiberghien, University of British Columbia
Zach Parolin, University of Antwerp
Hiroaki Watanabe, University of Sheffield
12 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch break
1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Panel 5: How Have Corporate Practices and Industrial Relations Changed?
Chair: Werner Pascha, University of Duisburg-Essen
Chiara Benassi, King’s College London
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, University of Tsukuba
Florian Spohr, University of Bochum
Midori Wakamori and Charles Weathers, Osaka City University