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The aim of this paper is to examine voluntary and involuntary job separations among Japanese men and women. Compared to past research, the focus in this study is on (1) the relationship between the rates of job mobility and previous job histories, and (2) the change in the situation after the period of economic stagnation. A discrete-time multinomial logit model is adopted using Japan's 2005 Social Stratification and Social Mobility Survey.
The result shows that while men have not experienced any change in the likelihood of job shifts depending on past job histories, it is becoming more likely for women with past job separations to leave their current jobs voluntarily. This can be interpreted as being consistent with past arguments which maintain that the Japanese labor market is segmented and that some parts of it have remained stable.
