This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … as evidence pointing to gender discrimination in the workplace. In designing, developing and revising public policy … instruments to achieve Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ambitious policy goal of "increasing the share of women in leadership positions …

Taking advantage of a recent relaxation of Japanese government's data release policy, we conduct a cross …-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 …

-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 …