Since World War II the number of Japanese college applications has expanded at an impressive rate. This paper concentrates on evaluating the extent to which economic factors underlie this expansion. Salient among the findings are results suggesting that an important segment of the population,...

The focus of this paper is on the impact of demographic change and the catching-up of Japanese industry with the West technologically upon the age-wage profile in Japan over the period 1964-1982. We argue that changes on the supply side of the aggregate labor market, especially the aging of the...