Analyzing the changes in the Japanese labor markets and the effects of government policies of the 1990s in the context of growth models with labor search frictions

通过这个项目，我们已经完成并发表了几篇高质量的研究论文。我们项目的成果在国内和国际讲习班和会议上进行了宣传和传播。我们还将我们的研究结果传达给了一些日本政府机构，如经济产业省的Rieti。我们项目的主要发现是，年龄较大的和年轻的工人以及女性受到20世纪90年代劳动力市场变化的影响最大。我们还发现，技术进步放缓在很大程度上解释了上世纪90年代失业率上升的原因。

With this project we have completed and published, or sent for publication several high quality research papers. The results of our project has been publicized and disseminated in both domestic and international workshops and conferences. We have also communicated the outcome of our research to some Japanese government institutions, such as RIETI in METI. The main findings of our project are that older and younger workers, as well as females were most affected by the labor market changes of the 1990s. We have also found that a technological progress slowdown explains a big part of the increase in unemployment observed over the 1990s.