Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

Using prefectural data, we study the potential impact on wage dynamics of the planned minimum wage increase policy in Japan. Our main result is that stepping up minimum wage growth from 2 to the ...

ANALYSIS: Before the election, Labor promised policies to lift the declining birthrate, but there is little evidence they will actually work.

A meaningful and sustainable rise in wages is a key goal for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, while the Bank of Japan says it’s a crucial factor for normalizing monetary policy. Real wages ...

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages in March fell 2.5% from a year earlier, marking declines for 24 straight months, labor ministry data showed on Thursday. The pace of declines accelerated from ...

The birth rate plummeted for the ninth consecutive year with more than two deaths for every baby born in 2024. Aware that to ...

The centrality of political arguments opposing immigration depends upon ignoring how modern capitalism uses exploited and ...

In fact, industries with a bigger share of immigrant workers tend to have lower wages overall. According to the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization that focuses on immigration and ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Around 280 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages and other money owed to them after their former employer ...

Just over a day before 55,000 Canada Post employees could be back on the picket line, the Crown corporation presented its workers Wednesday with a new contract — but it might not be enough to ...

A new government-issued report reflects some of the most controversial views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, ...