Ueda: Japan's Labor Market under Demographic Decline: Evolving Dynamics and Macroeconomic Implications | Crypto Craft

  • Ueda: Japan's Labor Market under Demographic Decline: Evolving Dynamics and Macroeconomic Implications

    From boj.or.jp Story is in PDF Format

    Let me begin by thanking the organizers for inviting me to this conference. This year's theme, "Labor Markets in Transition," is highly relevant to Japan. Our labor market is indeed undergoing a significant transformation, but the direction and underlying causes are somewhat unique to our country. For many years after the burst of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s, the combination of near-zero inflation, economic stagnation, and structural policies aimed at stimulating labor supply masked the demographic pressures on labor market tightness. The large-scale monetary easing since 2013, together with ... (full story)

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bel3ouchi
Aug 24, 2025 1:24pm
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Japan must open the door for immigration. If they want avoid recession
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HonzaD
Aug 24, 2025 1:59am
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Quoting cpshojib
So jpy will be weaken significantly I guess
If GDP does not fall significantly, then the labor shortage itself leads to wage increases, rather than if there were more employees on the market and unemployment were rising. The impact on the JPY should be positive. But I think it will be neutral, because UEDA does not say anything that is not already known. If you want to know the reason for high inflation in Japan, UEDA describes it in this document.
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cpshojib
Aug 23, 2025 11:43pm
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So jpy will be weaken significantly I guess
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vixmd
Aug 24, 2025 3:23pm
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jpy will experience little to no change due to this headline but if there will be a significant effect on jpy it will be positive
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Trader#77B9
Aug 24, 2025 4:28am
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Why will jpy weaken significantly?
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