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July 1983

Japan’s low unemployment: economic miracle or statistical artifact?

Koji Taira

Japanese workers statistically move from employment to out of the labor force, bypassing unemployment; their rates are still low even when the data are adjusted using U.S. concepts of unemployment.

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