OECDが日本に発破

OECDのグリア事務局長が、日本を訪問していろいろと喋っています。

経済産業研究所のセミナーでは、こういうスピーチをしているようです。

http://www.oecd.org/document/6/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_50189958_1_1_1_1,00.html（Revitalising the Japanese Economy: The Way Forward）

「日本経済再活性化」というわけで、いろいろ語っていますが、特に重要なのは「Boosting labour productivity.」（労働生産性を引き上げる）で、もう耳タコかもしれませんが、改めて：

Finally, there is one last element that can make a remarkable contribution to revitalising Japan:
Lifting employment through greater women’s participation

Japan needs to address strong demographic headwinds. Rapid population ageing will lead to a decline of Japan’s working-age population by nearly 40% by 2050, reducing the number of working-age persons per elderly person to only 1.3.

To limit the decline in the labour force, the participation of underemployed individuals, notably women, will need to rise. Indeed, the New Growth Strategy sets an objective of boosting the employment rate of women in the 25  44 age group from 66% in 2010 to 73% by 2020. Improving opportunities for women is an important objective Japan shares with many OECD countries.

The question is how can employment become more attractive to women? Reducing the share of non-regular workers, of which 70% are women, would promote job stability and encourage on-the-job training, thus increasing human capital. Moreover, it would lessen income inequality and relative poverty by reducing inequality in wages.  Indeed, the gender wage gap in Japan is the second highest in the OECD area.

Japan also needs to make a greater effort to introduce family-friendly policies in order to help women combine work and family life. Aspects of the tax and social security systems that discourage work by secondary earners should be reformed, while child-care should be improved and made more affordable.

But women are not the only the only segment of the population whose labour resources are underutilised. The human capital of older workers should also be used to its full potential through more flexible employment and wage systems that raise the age at which workers leave firms.

と、女性の労働力参加、非正規労働の正規化、ファミリーフレンドリー政策の推進、高齢者雇用の推進などを、口がすっぱくなるほど繰り返しています。

また経団連では、

http://www.oecd.org/document/44/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_50189484_1_1_1_1,00.html（The OECD skills strategy and its relevance for Japan）

「OECD技能戦略とその日本へのレリバンス」ということで、日本の使用者に対してこう呼びかけています。

First, Japanese employers need to re-align their business strategies with human-resource practices and skills development in their workforce. Firms that are good at deploying accepted best-practice management techniques are more innovative and perform significantly better. In well-managed firms, the skills of employees are used more productively and this also has a strong positive impact on job satisfaction.

Second, Japan needs better information on the skills needed and available, including through transparent qualification systems. Quality career guidance should become a critical part of Japan’s skills strategy. It can steer individuals to the learning programmes that would be best for their prospective careers. Coherent and easy-to-interpret qualifications facilitate recruitment and matching. Competency-based qualifications provide employers with a sense of what a future employee can perform on the job. They also enable individuals with work experience to secure credentials reflecting their skills “learned on the job”.

Third, Japan could benefit from still more flexible work arrangements. Family and professional lives are increasingly interwoven and have to be managed in parallel. Work places have to adapt to these changes and offer much more flexibility to avoid excluding individuals from active professional life, beginning with women. As already mentioned, this is crucial and duly documented in our report on Gender Equality.

人材戦略を再設計し、キャリアが見える透明な資格制度を導入し、仕事と家庭のための柔軟な労働編成が必要、とこれも口が酸っぱくなる程いわれていることではありますが。

なお、お勉強用には、OECDの報告書「Policies for a revitalisation of Japan」（日本再活性化のための政策）が30ページ弱の小冊子なので、お手頃です。

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/2/50190618.pdf

これくらいは読んでおきましょう、ということで。