Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade
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- Kambayashi, Ryo & Kato, Takao, 2012. "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade," IZA Discussion Papers 6666, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Kambayashi, Ryo & Kato, Takao, 2013. "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decade," PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series 41, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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Keywords
job quality; good jobs and bad jobs; the Great Recession; Lost Decade; Japan;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2013-07-15 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-LAB-2013-07-15 (Labour Economics)
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