Abstract
This paper examines the commonalities and differences in the nature of non-regular employment in Korea and Japan. For the purpose of comparison, this paper divides non-regular employment into complementary and substitutional types based on its relation to regular full-time employment. The analysis suggests that non-regular workers in Korea can be categorized as a substitutional type, while Japanese non-regular workers are still more similar to the complementary one. However it is also emphasized that the substitutional type of non-regular workers has increased in Japan during recent years. The following three factors are suggested and discussed as those responsible for these differences in non-regular employment between Korea and Japan: (1) economic efficiency of internal labor market, (2) wage structure and its recent development and (3) wage differential between regular and non-regular workers.
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