Hamaaki, Junya; Hori, Masahiro; Maeda, Saeko; Murata, Keiko - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2011
Exploiting annual career records of female workers constructed from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers (JPSC), this paper examines how the first job matters for an individual’s future job career. Using the regional unemployment rate in the year of graduation as an instrument for the first...