Abstract
Incredible ecomomic growth in postwar Japan has changed all the aspects of life of the Japanese, especially job mobility and labor markets. Thus, it would be almost impossible to understand the change in job mobility after the second world war without considering what the Japanese society has experienced since 1945. We study how the labor markets have changed analyzing the change in job mobility and the impact of the postwar Japanese economy on them.We show the following findings : The patterns of job mobility are mainly determined by the age of the movers ; they are also influenced by the long-term employment system, the dual structure in the labor markets, and the industrial structure ; and the dual structure in the labor markets has become stronger.
