Household Consumption in Japan : Role of Income and Asset Developments /

We study Japanese household consumption at a disaggregated level focusing on the role of income and asset dynamics. Stagnation of real per capita consumption is widespread acrosslabor market groups, age groups and regions. Consumption-to-income ratios have been mildly increasing due to the rising sh...

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Hlavní autor: Vihriala, Erkki
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/023
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF
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