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11 - Abe’s Womenomics Policy

Did It Reduce the Gender Gap in Management?

from Part IV - Third Arrow of Abenomics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

By
Nobuko Nagase
Edited by
Takeo Hoshi  and
Phillip Y. Lipscy
Takeo Hoshi
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Phillip Y. Lipscy
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

This chapter uses Japanese governmental microdata, the Labor Force Survey and the Basic Survey on Wage Structure, to look at the change in the gender wage gap and in the probability of females becoming managers. I found a higher probability of females becoming managers during the Abe administration, though there is still a large gap in promotion to management.

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gender gap in managementwomenomics
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The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms , pp. 310 - 356
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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