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What Can Boost Female Labor Force Participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko; Guo, Fang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … towards non-regular employment despite women’s high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …
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Japan; 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that on the back of new policy framework, growth in Japan accelerated …
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Is Japan’s Population Aging Deflationary?
Anderson, Derek; Botman, Dennis P. J.; Hunt, Ben - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Japan has the most rapidly aging population in the world. This affects growth and fiscal sustainability, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142094
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Balance Sheet Repair and Corporate Investment in Japan
Kang, Joong Shik - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
We trace Japanese firms’ behavior over the last decades using aggregate corporate balance sheet data. Financial health of Japanese corporate sector has improved and firms paid back significant amount of debt and rebuilt their liquidity buffers. They also expanded abroad while the pace of...
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