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Japan's low unemployment: economic
miracle or statistical artifact?
Koji Taira
Professor of economics and industrial relations, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
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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