BoJ paper studies factors holding workers back from switching industries

Researchers find that differences in required tasks aggravate earnings gaps

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A working paper published today by the Bank of Japan attempts to pin down factors behind the inflexibility of the Japanese labour market.

Inter-industry labor reallocation and task distance by Ayako Kondo and Saori Naganuma takes Japan's Labour Force Survey as its starting point, and seeks to identify worker flows between industries, supplementing the information with data on earnings from the Working Person Survey.

The authors find that differences in the tasks workers are expected to perform

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