abstract: 'Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a

  supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this question, we assess how

  well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market''s long-term

  structural changes, induced primarily by deepening interdependence with

  emerging economies and rapid technological progress over the last three

  decades. We examine the role of educational upgrading on the

  labor-market outcomes of youth between the ages of 25 and 29, using six

  waves of micro data from the Employment Status Survey spanning from 1982

  to 2007. The analysis demonstrates that the demand growth for skilled

  labor relative to unskilled labor has been met by the educational

  upgrading of youth through the expansion of tertiary education,

  including education in vocational schools. Youth left behind the trend

  of educational upgrading, however, have suffered significantly from

  decreasing employment opportunities and deteriorated working conditions.

  National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Roppongi 7-22-1,

  Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan; Graduate School of Economics,

  University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan;

  Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Naka 2-1,

  Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights

  reserved.'
affiliation: 'Kawaguchi, D (Corresponding Author), Hitotsubashi Univ, Grad Sch Econ,
  Naka 2-1, Kunitachi, Tokyo 1868601, Japan.

  Arai, Yoichi, Natl Grad Inst Policy Studies GRIPS, Minato Ku, Tokyo 1068677, Japan.

  Ichimura, Hidehiko, Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Econ, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan.

  Kawaguchi, Daiji, Hitotsubashi Univ, Grad Sch Econ, Kunitachi, Tokyo 1868601, Japan.'
author: Arai, Yoichi and Ichimura, Hidehiko and Kawaguchi, Daiji
author-email: 'yarai@grips.ac.jp

  ichimura@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  kawaguch@econ.hit-u.ac.jp'
author_list:
- family: Arai
  given: Yoichi
- family: Ichimura
  given: Hidehiko
- family: Kawaguchi
  given: Daiji
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jjie.2015.04.002
eissn: 1095-8681
files: []
issn: 0889-1583
journal: JOURNAL OF THE JAPANESE AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES
keywords: Tertiary education; Youth employment; Japan
keywords-plus: 'BIASED TECHNOLOGICAL-CHANGE; WAGE INEQUALITY; LABOR-MARKETS;

  UNITED-STATES; DEMAND; UNEMPLOYMENT; OECD'
language: English
month: SEP
number: SI
number-of-cited-references: '44'
orcid-numbers: Kawaguchi, Daiji/0000-0002-0595-9443
pages: 100-126
papis_id: eb7ea5b756d494c07d9e8a21dd1ab5b3
ref: Arai2015educationalupgrading
times-cited: '2'
title: 'The educational upgrading of Japanese youth, 1982-2007: Are all Japanese youth
  ready for structural reforms?'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000359889100007
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '26'
volume: '37'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; International Relations
year: '2015'