This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited … of labor market deregulation. Furthermore the 1985 treatment is found to have a lasting and growing impact on female …

Amendments to the Labour Standards Act (LSA) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSA of 1947 prohibited women from …, we find causal evidence pointing to the positive effect of this particular piece of labour market deregulation on the …

This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited … of labor market deregulation. Furthermore the 1985 treatment is found to have a lasting and growing impact on female …

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan’s Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … women made in enhancing their share of standard employment during Japan’s high growth decade in the 1980s are found to be …

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan’s Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … women made in enhancing their share of standard employment during Japan’s high growth decade in the 1980s are found to be …

-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 …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender …