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
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
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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
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soe_research-25032019-04-14T02:36:08Z Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System YAMADA, Ken KAWAGUCHI, Daiji 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 wage inequality after 2000 can be accounted for by a rise in within-group inequality resulting from a relative increase in educated and experienced workers, as well as changes in heterogeneous returns to human capital. 2012-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University wage inequality heterogeneous returns to human capital composition effects seniority wages Asian Studies Labor Economics
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topic wage inequality
heterogeneous returns to human capital
composition effects
seniority wages
Asian Studies
Labor Economics
spellingShingle wage inequality
heterogeneous returns to human capital
composition effects
seniority wages
Asian Studies
Labor Economics
YAMADA, Ken
KAWAGUCHI, Daiji
Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System
description 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 wage inequality after 2000 can be accounted for by a rise in within-group inequality resulting from a relative increase in educated and experienced workers, as well as changes in heterogeneous returns to human capital.
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author YAMADA, Ken
KAWAGUCHI, Daiji
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KAWAGUCHI, Daiji
author_sort YAMADA, Ken
title Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System
title_short Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System
title_full Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System
title_fullStr Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System
title_full_unstemmed Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Youth Population, and the Japanese Seniority Wage System
title_sort changing unchanged inequality: higher education, youth population, and the japanese seniority wage system
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url 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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