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Percentage of employees by length of service (2020)
Sources: Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training, Capital Group
Number of people employed and changing jobs in Japan (2022 average)
Calendar year 2022 average. Job changer: number of people who changed jobs within a year of employment, among full-time employees in Japan. Sources: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Capital Group
The changing face of Japanese corporations
As at December 2022. Period of analysis from Q1 1990 to Q4 2022 (four-quarter aggregate). Bold lines are four-year moving average. Sources: Ministry of Finance, Capital Group. Corporate statistics provided by Ministry of Finance, covering non-financial and non-insurance companies with capital stock of more than 1 billion yen (4,805 companies for Q4 2022)
Japan’s labour market shows continued signs of tightening
The Employment Condition Diffusion Index measures the dispersion of change of employment conditions. Data as at 30 May 2023. Sources: Bank of Japan Tankan, The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
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