이민정책연구원은 이민정책개발을 위한 연구와 교육
그리고 국내외 네트워크와의 협력을 통해 다양한 사업을 추진하고 있습니다.
Date | 202312 |
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Publication No | 2023-03 |
Author | Hyejin LEE |
Co-author | Namiko MATSUSHITA, Rui YAMAGUCHI, Sunjin Oh |
This study examines Japan’s policy development since the 2000s in expanding the employment of foreign workers and discusses its implications for South Korea. Japan has encouraged the entry and long-term employment of foreign nationals into the Japanese labor market through measures to promote employment of foreign students, accept technical intern trainees in the nursing care industry and establish a new “nursing care” residence status, and rehire technical intern trainees in the construction industry. The establishment of the “Specified Skilled Worker” system to respond to the labor shortage in 2019 is a step in this direction by allowing for the diversification and categorization of the labor market for foreign workers, while at the same time expanding the capacity to accept and retain foreign nationals as essential workers and other human resources that are in short supply in Japan. In addition, the catchphrase of Japan as a “country of choice” seen since late 2010 signifies a shift in the policy framework to actively secure foreign nationals as workers needed by Japanese industries.