Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … of non-standard and precarious employment. Women and men have relatively equal levels of unemployment at present, but the …-dominated occupations, the change poses a greater disadvantage for women. The recent reform of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law in Japan …

exit employment - is still important among a subset of couples, but that the overall value of marriage as a risk …-sharing arrangement has diminished because of the greater positive co-movement of employment within couples. While positive assortative …