Keiko Kayla Oka

Visiting Researcher
Graduated from Osaka Graduate School of Law in 2001 with Ph.D degree. Specialty in labor law. Joined Works Institute in the same year as a visiting researcher. Have engaged in research of international comparison of temporary agency laws and labor market policies in the U.S. and European countries.

Research area
Temporary agency laws, labor market policies, and American labor laws,


Treatise

  • “Challenges Towards Establishing a Japanese Version of Flexicutiry” Works ReviewVol.3:p.182-195(2008）
  • “An Overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act and White-Collar Exemptions in the United States” Works ReviewVol.2:p.186-197(2007）
  • ”The Roles and Functions Expected of Temporary Staffing: The Pros and Cons of No Regulations in the United States” Works ReviewVol.1:p.148-161(2006）
  • ”Regulatory Reform on Agency Work: With a Comparative Study of the Staffing Business in Japan and the United States” Economic Journal, Japan Center for Economic Research, No.53: 2006

Conference presentation

  • Non-standard Work Arrangements in Japan and the U.S. from Legal Perspective
    (Co-author with Noriaki Kojima, International Conference on Non-standard Work Arrangement, 2000: Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Results of research

Works University (2002-)

Books

  • How to Establish a Temporary Staffing Company in Japan (Pal Shuppan: 2004)
  • Nonstandard Work in Developed Economies: Causes and Consequences(Co-author, Houseman S. and Osawa M, Editors, Upjohn Institute: 2003)

Teaching experience

  • “Temporary Staffing in China” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.305:2011)
  • “Labor Market Reform in Spain” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.297:2011)
  • “Compliance Matters in the U.S. Staffing Industries” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.294: 2011)
  • “Stagnant Employment and Prolonged Unemployment in the U.S.” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.291:2010)
  • “Peculiarity in the Amendment Bill of the Worker Dispatch Law” Gekkan Jinzai Business (vol. 288: 2010)

Contribute & Lecture

  • “Temporary Staffing in China” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.305:2011)
  • “Labor Market Reform in Spain” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.297:2011)
  • “Compliance Matters in the U.S. Staffing Industries” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.294: 2011)
  • “Stagnant Employment and Prolonged Unemployment in the U.S.” Gekkan Jinzai Business (Vol.291:2010)
  • “Peculiarity in the Amendment Bill of the Worker Dispatch Law” Gekkan Jinzai Business (vol. 288: 2010)