A Study of Structural Change of Local Area : The impact of Massification of Higher Education in Japan

由于服务业在就业人口中所占比例最大，大学毕业生比例最高，因此受到日本大学毕业生劳动力扩张的影响最大。服务业就业人口总量增加的地区，就业人口总量和大学毕业生就业比例也明显扩大。另一方面，服务业工作人口增幅较小的地区，大学毕业生比例则没有上升。此外，后一地区年轻劳动力的增长相对较小。因此，各地区在吸纳特别是年轻大学毕业生方面的能力存在差异，这些因素加剧了劳动力市场的地区差异。

As the service industry has the largest share of the working population and the highest ratio of university graduates, it has been the most influenced by the expansion of the university graduate labor force in Japan. Local areas where the total service industry working population increased also saw remarkable expansion of the total working population and also the ratio of university graduates in employment. On the other hand, local areas where the increase in the service industry working population was less significant did not see a rise in the ratio of university graduates. Furthermore, the latter areas had relatively small increases in their young labor force. So there are differences by local areas in capacities for especially young university graduates absorption, and these factors increase area differentials within the labor market.