an entire economy. We use long-term (1979-2012) industry-level panel data from Japan, a country that is over 10 times as … has been beneficial to the demand for labor in Japan.Our results are robust to various controls and instrumental variables …

This paper compares the sources of income inequality in Japan and the United States. We exploit two longitudinal … household surveys to decompose the income inequality in both countries. For Japan, we use Keio Household Panel Survey data and … Japan (0.329), corroborating well-established previous findings. In a second step, we decompose the income inequality in …