Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System

Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System

Wage inequality declined in the 1990s and rose after 2000 among full-time male workers in Japan. Narrowing wage inequality in the 1990s can be accounted for by a decline in between-group inequality resulting from a stable return to education and decreased returns to experience and tenure. Widening w...

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Main Authors: YAMADA, Ken, KAWAGUCHI, Daiji
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
Subjects:
wage inequality
heterogeneous returns to human capital
composition effects
seniority wages
Asian Studies
Labor Economics
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1504
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2503/viewcontent/Changing_Unchanged_Inequality_2012_wp.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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