Varieties in Gendered Dualism in East Asian Labor Markets

This paper focuses on the fast increase of female atypical workers in Japan and South Korea in comparison with Taiwan. Furthermore, we also specifically highlight on the increase of female atypical workers and highlight on the difference between Korea and Japan that in Korea, temporary employment takes up a large part of total female atypical work while it is part-time work in case of Japan. We attempt to explain this difference among the three East Asian female labour markets by analysing the impact of welfare policies on gender segregation employing historical comparative analysis. The assumptions is that the development of post war manufacturing sector which absorbed female workers in the three countries presents different characteristics among the three countries and that later employed gender regimes created different path ways for the development of female labour market in the post-industrial labour market in East Asia.