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

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J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
J82 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Labor Force Composition

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