Decades not Lost, but Won: Increased Employment, Higher Wages, and More Equal Opportunities in the Japanese Labour Market.
We take a fresh analytical look at the developments in the Japanese labour market over the last two decades and provide answers to three key questions: first, was regular employment replaced by non-regular employment on an aggregate level in general and at the expense of younger generations in parti...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Japan Journal Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 63 - 89 |
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Winter2015
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