1st Edition
Japan's Emerging Youth Policy Getting Young Adults Back to Work
By Tuukka Toivonen
Copyright 2013
264 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious concern requiring an immediate response. What shape did this response take?
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1. Getting Young Adults Back to Work: A Post-Industrial Dilemma in Japan 2. The Emergence of Youth Independence Support Policy 3. NEET: Creating a Target for Activation 4. Crafting Policy: Sympathetic Bureaucrats in a Hostile Climate 5. The Youth Independence Camp: Communities of Recognition? 6. The Youth Support Station: Exploring the User 7. Beyond Symbolic Activation: Scaling Up the Alternatives
Biography
Tuukka Toivonen is Junior Research Fellow in Management at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK (www.tuukkatoivonen.org).
