This study divides workers into regular, non-regular, and self-employed and other workers, and investigates the role of the flows of these different types of workers on Japan's labor market stocks using a counterfactual simulation. I find that the job finding rate for non-regular jobs and the...

1 Overview -- Part 1: Theory -- 2 Flatter Wage Profiles and Reduced Lifetime Employment: A Simple Formalization -- 3 Ranking and Long-term Unemployment in a Model with Efficiency Wages -- Part II Evidence -- 4 Testing the Dual Structure of the Japanese Labor Market -- 5 Duration Dependence of...

"Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets" explains the salient features of the Japanese Labour Market and their evolution through time. The key idea is integrated segmentation: on the demand side, within the educational system; on the supply side, through the type of labour...