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Careers in foreign-owned firms in Japan with Hiroshi Ono

Date:Thursday, October 4, 2012
Time:7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.) Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Mita 5F
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Speaker: Hiroshi Ono, Associate Professor of sociology at Texas A&M University Moderator:Robert Dujarric, ICAS Director Admission:Free (Open to general public) RSVP:icas[at]tuj.temple.edu *If you RSVP you are automatically registered. If possible, we ask you to RSVP but we always welcome participants even you do not RSVP.

[Overview]
Hiroshi Ono will examine how macro-level global forces are shaping the behavior of firms and of individuals in the Japanese financial sector, with particular focus on the increasing influence of foreign firms. These firms bring with them employment practices that are more market-driven and less socially embedded compared to the Japanese status quo. The co-existence of the foreign and the domestic in the Japanese labor market provides a fascinating test bed to examine how local firms adapt to global pressures, and how workers navigate the changing institutional environment.

[Speaker]
Hiroshi Ono (Ph.D. in sociology, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. He is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo and Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He has extensive international experience, having held professional and academic positions in the U.S., Japan, and Sweden. Prior to his current position, he was on the faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics where he was awarded the title of Docent (or second doctoral degree) in Economics. His research integrates sociology and microeconomics to study the causes and consequences of stratification and inequality, with applications in the areas of gender, family, education, and labor markets.
His current work looks at patterns of career mobility in the Japanese labor market, and determinants of happiness in an international context. His papers have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Economics of Education Review, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Social Forces, and Social Science Quarterly, among others. (for more information please visit
http://sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty.php?faculty_id=54)
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Robert Dujarric
Director
Kyle Cleveland
Associate Director
Eriko Kawaguchi
Coordinator
Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University, Japan Campus
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/