The term "lifetime employment" first appeared in a Japanese translation of a 1958 book by James Abegglen.sup1/sup Once the term "lifetime employment" was coined, it went beyond the world of the social sciences; it instantly spread throughout society via journalism, becoming a permanent fixture...

Prior to 1955, the issue of personnel retrenchment touched off a number of major labor strikes. Subsequently, large-scale personnel reductions continued to attract the public's attention. What were the major issues between companies and labor unions in these personnel cutbacks? Or, conversely,...

If you look for a definition of lifetime employment in dictionaries of technical terms such as an economics dictionary, a management dictionary, or a sociology dictionary, you will find the following two concepts.

pThe number of employees typical of the big-company model is expected to decrease gradually. According to the annual reports of several well-known Japanese companies, the number of male full-time employeesâwho are supposedly the family breadwinnersâhas been falling since the collapse of the...

General Fund revenue growth in California has been quite strong in recent years, led by major increases in personal income taxes (PITS). This paper reviews the performance of the state's major taxes in the recent expansion, then turns to the main issue facing revenue estimators in California...