elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the Japanese government has sought to transform the country into a "lifestyle … ; wage level and structure ; country studies: Japan …

participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate that expected attachment to the labor market affects …. -- training ; labor market attachment ; job tenure ; gender ; Japan …

The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally …

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …

cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …