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Japan Could Change Childbirth Rules Amid Efforts to Boost Birth Rates
In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.
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Minimum Wage as a Wage Policy Tool in Japan
Using prefectural data, we study the potential impact on wage dynamics of the planned minimum wage increase policy in Japan. Our main result is that stepping up minimum wage growth from 2 to the ...
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From the "singles tax" to the four-day workweek: the despair of a Japan sunk in its demographic crisis: "We are facing extinction"
The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...
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Why Japan's birth rate is falling and what the country's doing to try and reverse the population decline
Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.
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Costco’s Japan wages provide pathway to firing up nation’s low pay, economy
A meaningful and sustainable rise in wages is a key goal for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, while the Bank of Japan says it’s a crucial factor for normalizing monetary policy. Real wages ...
Japan to Target 1% Real Wage Gains Within Next Five Years
The Japanese government is likely to establish 1% growth in real wages as its first-ever official target for pay increases, a ...