抄録
This paper examines the effect of the aggravation of youth employment environment on their marriage behavior in Japan. Especially, I focus on the effect of increase the irregular employee rate as the designation on the single rate and analyze empirically, using extensive individual Japanese date from Employment status survey, which examined a large sample.
The empirical results show that increases both male and female irregular employment rates have significant effects on the rising each opposite genders’ single rates, in the case of sorting the marriage markets only by an age-grade and annual. Furthermore, the effects have greater influences on lower educated youth. While on the other hand, in the case of sorting the marriage markets by adding education, the results of only university graduate were not significant. These results suggest that the rigorousness of the dual labor market affects male and female marriage behavior of the low educated youth more in Japan. Therefore, policies to improve the income security of the low-income youth and to promote a shift from irregular to regular employment, especially for low educated youth, are needed to raise the both male and female marriage rates in Japan.
