Tarohmaru Hiroshi, MA (1993), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University, Japan. He has published extensively on issues relating to the social stratification of Japan, including most recently The Sociology of Youth Non-standard Employment: Social Stratification, Gender and Globalization (Osaka University Press, 2009).

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresList of Tables1. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification in East Asia: Research Background and FrameworkTAROHMARU Hiroshi2. Gender Difference in Unemployment Risk in the Face of Globalization: Effects of Institutional Factors in the Case of Japan and TaiwanSAKAGUCHI Yusuke3. Economic Crisis, Labor Market Restructuring and Job Mobility in Korea: 1998-2008PHANG Hanam4. Impact of a changing employment system on women’s employment at the times of marriage and childbirth in JapanYAMATO Reiko5. Can Active Labor Market Policies Enhance the Suicide-Preventive Effect of Intimacy? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of 27 OECD Countries Including Japan and Korea, 1980 to 2007Haruka SHIBATA6. An Interregional Comparison of Occupational Gender Segregation in JapanODA Akiko, TAROHMARU Hiroshi, and YAMATO Reiko7. Who is Successful in Stabilizing Self-Employment?: Family, Gender and Labor Market StructuresTAKENOSHITA Hirohisa8. Where the Materialism still Matters: Status Identity in East AsiaCHANG Chin-fen, XIE Guihua, TAKAMATSU Rie, and KIM Young-MiIndex

Tarohmaru Hiroshi, MA (1993), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University, Japan. He has published extensively on issues relating to the social stratification of Japan, including most recently The Sociology of Youth Non-standard Employment: Social Stratification, Gender and Globalization (Osaka University Press, 2009).

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresList of Tables1. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification in East Asia: Research Background and FrameworkTAROHMARU Hiroshi2. Gender Difference in Unemployment Risk in the Face of Globalization: Effects of Institutional Factors in the Case of Japan and TaiwanSAKAGUCHI Yusuke3. Economic Crisis, Labor Market Restructuring and Job Mobility in Korea: 1998-2008PHANG Hanam4. Impact of a changing employment system on women’s employment at the times of marriage and childbirth in JapanYAMATO Reiko5. Can Active Labor Market Policies Enhance the Suicide-Preventive Effect of Intimacy? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of 27 OECD Countries Including Japan and Korea, 1980 to 2007Haruka SHIBATA6. An Interregional Comparison of Occupational Gender Segregation in JapanODA Akiko, TAROHMARU Hiroshi, and YAMATO Reiko7. Who is Successful in Stabilizing Self-Employment?: Family, Gender and Labor Market StructuresTAKENOSHITA Hirohisa8. Where the Materialism still Matters: Status Identity in East AsiaCHANG Chin-fen, XIE Guihua, TAKAMATSU Rie, and KIM Young-MiIndex

Tarohmaru Hiroshi, MA (1993), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kyoto University, Japan. He has published extensively on issues relating to the social stratification of Japan, including most recently The Sociology of Youth Non-standard Employment: Social Stratification, Gender and Globalization (Osaka University Press, 2009).

• List of ContributorsList of FiguresList of Tables1. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification in East Asia: Research Background and FrameworkTAROHMARU Hiroshi2. Gender Difference in Unemployment Risk in the Face of Globalization: Effects of Institutional Factors in the Case of Japan and TaiwanSAKAGUCHI Yusuke3. Economic Crisis, Labor Market Restructuring and Job Mobility in Korea: 1998-2008PHANG Hanam4. Impact of a changing employment system on women’s employment at the times of marriage and childbirth in JapanYAMATO Reiko5. Can Active Labor Market Policies Enhance the Suicide-Preventive Effect of Intimacy? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of 27 OECD Countries Including Japan and Korea, 1980 to 2007Haruka SHIBATA6. An Interregional Comparison of Occupational Gender Segregation in JapanODA Akiko, TAROHMARU Hiroshi, and YAMATO Reiko7. Who is Successful in Stabilizing Self-Employment?: Family, Gender and Labor Market StructuresTAKENOSHITA Hirohisa8. Where the Materialism still Matters: Status Identity in East AsiaCHANG Chin-fen, XIE Guihua, TAKAMATSU Rie, and KIM Young-MiIndex