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Is Labor Market Mismatch a Big Deal in Japan?

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  • Shibata Ippei

    (International Monetary Fund, WashingtonDC, USA)

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This paper estimates Japanese labor market mismatch between 2000 and 2019 by using the method of Sahin et al. (“Mismatch Unemployment.” The American Economic Review 104 (11): 3529–64, 2014). We quantify contract-type (regular or non-regular), employment-type (full or part-time), and occupational mismatch and their respective contributions to changes in unemployment. All three types of mismatch show a countercyclical pattern, sharply increasing during the global financial crisis (GFC), but slowly declining during the recovery. Contract-type and occupational mismatch accounted for a significant portion of the rise in the unemployment rate during the GFC, each accounting for around 30 and 20–40 percent, respectively. Employment-type mismatch, on the other hand, accounted for much less–at around 15 perecent of the rise in unemployment for the same period.

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  • Shibata Ippei, 2020. "Is Labor Market Mismatch a Big Deal in Japan?," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 20(2), pages 1-28, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejmac:v:20:y:2020:i:2:p:28:n:3
    DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2016-0179
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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