Wage, income and consumption inequality in Japan, 1981-2008: From boom to lost decades

• Main Authors: LISE, Jeremy, SUDO, Nao, SUZUKI, Michio, YAMADA, Ken, YAMADA, Tomoaki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: nequality trends; life-cycle inequality; wage dynamics; Asian Studies; Economics; Income Distribution
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1648; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2647/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S1094202514000027_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper we document the main features of the distributions of wages, earnings, consumption and wealth in Japan since the early 1980s using four main data sources: the Basic Survey on Wage Structure (BSWS), the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), the National Survey of Family Income an...