TY - JOUR
T1 - From high school to work
T2 - market and institutional mechanisms in Japan
AU - Rosenbaum, James Edward
AU - Kariya, T.
PY - 1989/1/1
Y1 - 1989/1/1
N2 - Market models posit that institutional linkages interfere with efficient labor markets. Many Japanese high schools have agreements with employers to hire their students, and this article examines the reasons they make these ties, and the criteria they use to select students. Interviews with teachers and recruiters indicate that the Japanese system shifts the competition for jobs from the labor market into schools and among schools, and employers also compete for dependable sources of labor. Multivariate analysis of surveys of 1408 high schools and 964 seniors indicate that desirable jobs are allocated more on the basis of academic than nonacademic criteria, contrary to the predictions of some models. Institutional linkages differ from both economic market models and from sociological personal network models, and they have practical and theoretical implications for understanding the relationship between education and work. -from Authors
AB - Market models posit that institutional linkages interfere with efficient labor markets. Many Japanese high schools have agreements with employers to hire their students, and this article examines the reasons they make these ties, and the criteria they use to select students. Interviews with teachers and recruiters indicate that the Japanese system shifts the competition for jobs from the labor market into schools and among schools, and employers also compete for dependable sources of labor. Multivariate analysis of surveys of 1408 high schools and 964 seniors indicate that desirable jobs are allocated more on the basis of academic than nonacademic criteria, contrary to the predictions of some models. Institutional linkages differ from both economic market models and from sociological personal network models, and they have practical and theoretical implications for understanding the relationship between education and work. -from Authors
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U2 - 10.1086/229157
DO - 10.1086/229157
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024838084
VL - 94
SP - 1334
EP - 1365
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
SN - 0002-9602
IS - 6
ER -