Japan labor shortage: Re: BLS Daily Report

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Subject: Japan labor shortage: Re: BLS Daily Report
From: michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:57:08 -0800

What is going on?  Unemployment is increasing in Japan and companies are acting
as if they are poised to conduct massive layoffs, No???

Richardson_D wrote:

> BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2001
>
>
> As Japan contemplates a huge labor shortage in the very near future, the
> society has shown greater readiness to contemplate even large-scale
> immigration -- long one of the country's biggest taboos -- rather than
> moving quickly to provide equal opportunities for Japanese women, who are
> still being shunted off in large part onto dead-end jobs. ...  (New York
> Times, Jan. 1, page C1).

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References:
- BLS Daily Report
  - From: Richardson_D

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