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...

This paper studies worker flows dynamics in Japan for the period between 1980 and 2009. We construct gross worker flows data from the monthly Labour Force Survey. Our data enables us to examine the size and cyclical patterns of the flows and transition rates between the states of employment,...