The Changing and Unchanged Nature of Inequality and Seniority in Japan
The Changing and Unchanged Nature of Inequality and Seniority in Japan
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日本不平等和资历的变化和不变本质
DOI：
10.1007/s10888-014-9295-6
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Ken Yamada and Daiji Kawaguchi
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作者：
野村知子;杉澤秀博 ;友永美帆 ;吉岡英司 ;武安眞珠 ;渡邊範江;内園薫 ;片寄あつみ;大澤英児;嶋崎尚子;伊勢坊綾・中原淳;李 澤建;倉田 徹;Tatsuhiro Ueno;Ken Yamada and Daiji Kawaguchi
日本全职男性工人的工资不平等在1990年代有所下降，而在2000年代有所增加。我们发现，在以往的不平等实证分析中被忽视的企业专用人力资本回报率下降，是防止日本长期经济停滞期间工资不平等加剧的关键因素。我们还发现，虽然一般和特定人力资本回报的变化有助于缩小20世纪90年代的工资不平等和扩大21世纪头十年的工资不平等，但21世纪头十年工资不平等增加的很大一部分可归因于受过教育和经验丰富的工人比例增加所产生的构成效应，其中工资更加分散。
Wage inequality declined in the 1990s, while it increased in the 2000s for full-time male workers in Japan. We find that a decreased return to firm-specific human capital, which has been neglected in previous empirical analyses of inequality, is a key factor preventing a rise in wage inequality during the prolonged period of economic stagnation, known as Japan’s lost decades. We also find that, while changes in returns to general and specific human capital contributed to narrowing wage inequality in the 1990s and widening wage inequality in the 2000s, a significant fraction of the increase in wage inequality in the 2000s is attributable to composition effects arising from an increased share of educated and experienced workers, among whom wages are more dispersed.