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Has Japan's Long-term employment Practice Survived? New Evidence Emerging Since the 1990s

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  • Satoshi Shimizutani
  • Izumi Yokoyama

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What happened to the traditional, long-term employment practices in Japan after the 1990s has remained unexplored. We take advantage of a micro data set from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure to provide new evidence regarding the years of tenure for Japanese male workers after a decade-long recession. While the practice of long-term employment is still alive among the workers who are already in the system, the proportion of workers who are not covered by the system has increased. These ongoing phenomena contribute to the bipolarization in the Japanese labor market.

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Paper provided by Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University in its series Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series with number d06-182.

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Date of creation: Aug 2006
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Handle: RePEc:hst:hstdps:d06-182

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Keywords: long-term employment practice; Japan; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux decomposition;

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  1. Oshio, Takashi & Shimizutani, Satoshi & Sato Oishi, Akiko, 2008. "Does Social Security Induce Withdrawal of the Old from the Labor Force and Create Jobs for the Young?: The Case of Japan," PIE/CIS Discussion Paper 408, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
  2. Ryo Kambayashi & Daiji Kawaguchi & Izumi Yokoyama, 2006. "Wage Distribution in Japan: 1989-2003," Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series d06-183, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
  3. Satoshi Shimizutani & Takashi Oshio, 2008. "The Labor Supply Effect Of Social Security Earnings Test Revisited: New Evidence From Its Elimination And Revival In Japan," Discussion Papers 0822, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
  4. Junichi Fujimoto, 2008. "Implications of General and Specific Productivity Growth in a Matching Model," 2008 Meeting Papers 584, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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