Why Are Japanese Wages So Sluggish? /

Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries. This paper suggests that Japan's dualities between regular and "nonregular" labor market contracts and the relatively inefficient services sector have exacerbated the n...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Sommer, Martin
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/097
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries. This paper suggests that Japan's dualities between regular and "nonregular" labor market contracts and the relatively inefficient services sector have exacerbated the negative impact of globalization and technical change on the labor income share felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium term. 
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