A Decomposition of the Decline in Japanese Nominal Wages in the 1990s and 2000s
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Keywords
nominal wage decline; deflation; changes in industrial structure; trade and labor market interactions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
- L80 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GER-2014-09-29 (German Papers)
- NEP-LAB-2014-09-29 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-09-29 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MAC-2014-09-29 (Macroeconomics)
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