freeter
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In Japan, a is a person aged 18 to 34 who is unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise lacks full-time paid employment. The term excludes stay-at-home spouses and students.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Causes
- Effects
- Difficulties starting their own household
- Difficulties starting a career
- Health and pension insurance
- Freedom of choice
- Effect on Japanese society
- Freeters in popular culture and mass media
- See also
- References
- External links
In Japan, a is a person aged 18 to 34 who is unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise lacks full-time paid employment. The term excludes stay-at-home spouses and students.
Freeters do not start a career after high school or university, but instead earn money from low-paid jobs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “freeter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.