Hamaaki, Junya; Hori, Masahiro; Maeda, Saeko; Murata, Keiko - In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 65 (2012) 4, pp. 810-846
This paper re-examines developments in two key elements of the Japanese employment system, seniority-based wages and … lifetime employment, using recent microdata from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure. In contrast with previous studies, we do … employment, we find a clear downward trend in the share of lifetime employees among younger, university-educated workers from the …