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Size-specific Effects in Job Reallocation and Worker Mobility: Japan’s Experience from the 1990s

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This study finds a strong and positive correlation between the net job-creation rates of large employers and labor market tightness (i.e., ratio of job offers to job-seekers) in business cycle frequencies in Japan. This correlation is much stronger than that seen among smaller employers, and is mainly due to pro-cyclicality in job creation at large firms. Furthermore, large firms offer relatively higher wages to job-changers at the point of job transition in a tight labor market than do small firms. However, such pro-cyclicality in wage offers are less evident at large firms conditioned with the change in the level of new vacancies. One of the background factors for the weak pro-cyclicality of wage offers by large firms could be that they offer a superior internal market.

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  • Ueno, Yuko, 2014. "Size-specific Effects in Job Reallocation and Worker Mobility: Japan’s Experience from the 1990s," CIS Discussion paper series 624, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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