Segmentation by Firm Size in the Japanese Labor Market

日本的劳资关系通常被视为以永久雇佣、资历工资和大小公司工人之间高度不平等为特征。随着日本成为一个高度工业化、大众化的社会，日本劳动力市场的这些特点可能正在消失。如果是这样的话，那么它应该会对公司内部和公司之间的工人流动以及大公司和小公司工人之间的收入不平等程度产生影响。这个项目将通过分析1955、1965和1975年的日本社会分层和流动性调查来解决这些问题。这些数据涵盖了日本40年来的快速工业化和经济增长。调查人员将使用计量经济学模型来分析数据。他将研究随着时间的推移，员工在公司之间的流动是否已经变得更加普遍，以及收入决定过程是否仍然由资历工资的存在主导。这项研究将是对日本劳动力市场文献的重要补充，因为它考察了过去40年的快速工业化和强劲的经济增长是否已经用更类似于美国劳动力市场已知模式的基于生产率的工资决定取代了固定就业和资历工资的做法。

Japanese industrial relations are often seen as being characterized by permanent employment, seniority wages, and a high level of inequality between workers in large and small firms. These characteristics of the Japanese labor market may be vanishing as Japan is becoming a highly industrialized, mass society. If that is the case, then it should have implications for the mobility of workers within and between firms and for the level of earnings inequality between workers in large and small firms. This project will address these issues by analyzing the Japanese Surveys of Social Stratification and Mobility from 1955, 1965, and 1975. These data span four decades of rapid industrialization and economic growth for Japan. The investigator will use econometric models to analyze the data. He will examine whether between-firm mobility of workers has become more common over time, and whether the earnings determination process still is dominated by the existence of seniority wages. This study will be an important addition to the literature on the Japanese labor market because it examines whether the rapid industrialization and strong economic growth of the last four decades have replaced the practices of permanent employment and seniority wages by productivity-based wage determination more similar to the patterns known from the American labor market.