Restructuring Japan's Employment and Labor System: Aiming for an abundance of creativity and vitality

13:00 - 13:10 Opening Remarks

FUJITA Masahisa (President and CRO, RIETI/Professor, Konan University/Adjunct Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)

13:15 - 13:40 General Overview "Reconstruction of Employment and Labor Systems: With a particular focus on the response to the employment crisis and polarization of the labor market"

TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

13:40 - 15:15 Reports

13:40 - 14:05 Reports 1 "On the Need for Comprehensive Panel Data on the Elderly in Japan: With an evaluation based on substantiative evidence of labor policies as an example"

ICHIMURA Hidehiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)

14:05 - 14:30 Reports 2 "Labor, Productivity, and Economic Growth in Japan"

FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

14:30 - 14:55 Reports 3"Globalization of the Economy and Domestic Employment"

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)

14:55 - 15:15 Q&A

15:15 - 15:35 Coffee Break

15:35 - 18:05 Panel Discussion

Moderator: HIGUCHI Yoshio (Dean and Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)

Panelists:

OGINO Katsuhiko (Project General Manager, Labor Relations Div., Toyota Motor Corporation)

HASEGAWA Yuko (Executive Director, Department of Working Conditions, JTUC-RENGO)

MIZUMACHI Yuichiro (Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)

YAJIMA Yoko (Senior Researcher, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co, Ltd/Visiting Professor, Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management)

18:05 - 18:10 Closing Remarks

OIKAWA Kozo (Chairman, RIETI)