We investigate the efficiency of resource reallocation in Japan during the 1990s ... The results show that 37% of the actual decline in APG due to inefficient labor reallocation in Japan in the '90s ...

The OECD series is one of a very small number of written resources providing a ... and encouraging more broad-based labor-force participation by Japanese citizens. Increasingly, however, a labor ...

Japan expects to take in 820,000 skilled workers from overseas over the coming five years, sharply expanding previous projections to address growing labor shortages, sources said. The figure is ...

Japan has seen a rise in female labor force participation, but government policies have had little immediate effect on the strong cultural pressures that dissuade many women from staying in the ...

Japan's food industry faces the same dire demographic problems plaguing the rest of the country. A shrinking and aging population has led to chronic labor shortages, but one startup believes ...