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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: LISE, Jeremy, SUDO, Nao, SUZUKI, Michio, YAMADA, Ken, YAMADA, Tomoaki
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• الموضوعات: nequality trends; life-cycle inequality; wage dynamics; Asian Studies; Economics; Income Distribution
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: 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

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...