Part-time employment in Japan

[pmichaillat]

Here is the published version of the paper documenting the evolution of unemployment and part-time employment in Japan. Part-time employment is people who work less than 30 hours a week. The increase in the share of part-time employment is quite striking (figure 1).

[YoshiShono]

Thank you so much! The figure reminds me the rise of female labor force participation rate in Japan. Another interesting thing for Japan is that female labor force participation rate in Japan is now higher than the U.S. The following Brookings website explores the reasons.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-from-the-rise-of-womens-labor-force-participation-in-japan/

It says "We find that aging and growing levels of educational attainment were not at the root of Japan’s post-2000 prime-age participation increase and that the declining share of married women played a small role." Of course, there should be some reasons to explain it (fiscal burden, demographic change...) If the reason of the rise is different from U.S., it is very interesting.

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For anyone, who is interested in the Japanese official data, the following website (the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training) seems good to see what kind of labor-related data the Japanese government publishes. (I strongly recommend to check the original government's website when getting the data.)
https://www.jil.go.jp/english/estatis/eshuyo/index.html

[rongjinz]

Thank you for sharing the paper!

[YoshiShono]

Sure!!

[YoshiShono]

For the rise in female labor participation in the U.S., the following paper is a recent related macro paper. Considering cross-country difference seems also interesting.
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/mac.20200312

[YoshiShono]

I think there is no good english data source for the data of vacancy and applicants. The following is Japanese page. But, before you use, please check whther the value is consistnt with the recent publication of the ministry. (See the level and vacancy-applicants ratio.)

The following is the vacany (through "hello-works")
https://www.e-stat.go.jp/stat-search/files?page=1&query=%E4%B8%80%E8%88%AC%E8%81%B7%E6%A5%AD%E7%B4%B9%E4%BB%8B%E7%8A%B6%E6%B3%81&layout=dataset&stat_infid=000040150013&metadata=1&data=1

The following is the job applicants (I think through "hello-works")
https://www.e-stat.go.jp/stat-search/files?page=1&query=%E4%B8%80%E8%88%AC%E8%81%B7%E6%A5%AD%E7%B4%B9%E4%BB%8B%E7%8A%B6%E6%B3%81&layout=dataset&stat_infid=000040150014&metadata=1&data=1

[rongjinz]

thanks a lot!