The Development of China's Policy regarding Foreign Labor Services : How does their policy of exporting labor influence Japan?

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  • 中国の労務輸出政策の内容と展開 : 労働力送り出し制度と日本の技能実習制度への影響
  • チュウゴク ノ ロウム ユシュツ セイサク ノ ナイヨウ ト テンカイ : ロウドウリョク オクリダシ セイド ト ニホン ノ ギノウ ジッシュウ セイド エ ノ エイキョウ

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China has maintained a policy of exporting labor. It began, first, as political and economic aid projects to other developing countries, but later another project, called “labor cooperation”, was added to the category of labor exports. Labor cooperation is a category for sending Chinese citizens abroad to work in areas such as construction, manufacturing and agriculture. The Japanese Technical Internship Program (TIP) receives Chinese workers through this channel of labor cooperation. In the first stage of the TIP’s development in Japan, the TIP’s institutional purpose of technology transfers was well-coordinated with China’s labor cooperation program, since both carried the banner of Japan-China friendship and technology transfers, but as the Chinese government authorized private companies to export labor or set up overseas employment agencies as intermediaries, the system of sending workers abroad became more business-like and private companies faced tough competition. Although China’s central and local governments promote the sending of workers abroad to enhance their living conditions, as well as to acquire foreign currency, tough competition in the labor export business to Japan may infringe the human rights of China’s dispatch workers in Japan.

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  • 経済志林

    経済志林 80 (4), 77-112, 2013-03-15

    法政大学経済学部学会

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