Structural issues in the Japanese labor market - An era of variety, equity and efficiency or an era of bipolarization?
Bank of Japan. Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Tokyo ; Tachibanaki, Toshiaki ; Fujiki, Hiroshi ; Kurada Nakada, Sachiko
IMES - Tokyo
2000
80 p.
employment policy ; labour market ; older worker ; part time worker ; statistics ; structural change ; unemployment ; women workers ; youth
IMES Discussion paper
2000-E-22
Labour market
English
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"This paper describes several structural changes in the Japanese labor market and related institutional factors with special emphasis on the labor supplies of part-time workers and discouraged workers. We also discuss necessary reforms in the labor market and some implications of such structural changes on the conduct of monetary policy."
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