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Japan: Wage Differentials and Changes since the 1980s

In: Wage Differentials

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  • Yuji Genda

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This chapter focuses on the wage structure in Japan during the 1980s and early 1990s. Thanks to earlier insightful studies, we now have a better understanding of various aspects of the Japanese labour market. For example, notable Japanese labour practices such as lifetime employment and seniority wages were long regarded as remnants of Japan’s premodern culture which would interfere with the modern economic growth by obstructing the efficient working of the labour market. In the 1990s, however, many researchers of Japanese firms believe that both of these are well-founded rational systems generating a prevalence of skilled workers and that they contributed to Japan’s economic success after the Second World War.

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  • Yuji Genda, 1998. "Japan: Wage Differentials and Changes since the 1980s," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Toshiaki Tachibanaki (ed.), Wage Differentials, chapter 2, pages 35-71, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26281-6_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26281-6_2
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    1. Ken Yamada & Daiji Kawaguchi, 2015. "The changing and unchanged nature of inequality and seniority in Japan," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 13(1), pages 129-153, March.
    2. GENDA, Yuji & KURODA, Sachiko & OHTA, Souichi, 2011. "Does downsizing take a toll on retained staff? An analysis of increased working hours during recessions using Japanese micro data," ISS Discussion Paper Series (series F) f154, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
    3. Ryo Kambayashi & Daiji Kawaguchi & Izumi Yokoyama, 2008. "Wage distribution in Japan, 1989–2003," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 41(4), pages 1329-1350, November.
    4. Daiji Kawaguchi & Yuko Mori, 2014. "Winning the race against technology," Bank of Japan Working Paper Series 14-E-5, Bank of Japan.
    5. Kawaguchi, Daiji & Mori, Yuko, 2016. "Why has wage inequality evolved so differently between Japan and the US? The role of the supply of college-educated workers," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 29-50.
    6. KAWAGUCHI Daiji & MORI Yuko, 2008. "Stable Wage Distribution in Japan, 1982-2002: A Counter Example for SBTC?," Discussion papers 08020, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).

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