Views on youth job satisfaction of non-regular employment: Focusing on single male non-regular employees

Since 1990's in Japan, the increase of non-regular employment in youth has had a great impact on the way of getting their achievement of their social status. Ever since then, a lot of studies focusing on the differences among youth, such as income gap, have been provided, whereas studies about consciousness or sense of values of youth are relatively few. In this paper, I pay an attention to job satisfaction of Japanese youth and try to find determinant factors of their job satisfaction. As a result, job satisfaction of single male non-regular employees remains at the lowest level among young people. The youth belonging to this category has an affinity with a jobless youth on life awareness side, and would not have enough living or educational background. Focusing on one's past experience, I found that the experience to come in contact with adults is an essential factor of job satisfaction. To solve the issues of employment in youth, it is important not only to improve the work condition of youth, but also to promote the experience to come in contact with adults at a compulsory education stage.