Abstract
Although the gender wage gap in Japan has become increasingly narrower, it remains large compared to that in other developed countries. To address this situation, the government enacted the Act on the Promotion of Women’s Active Engagement in Professional Life in 2016. This study investigates how the gender wage gap has changed during this period using data from 2016 to 2022. The main findings show that the presence of children contributed in the opposite direction; specifically, in 2022, the presence of children slightly decreased the wages of highly educated females but increased the male wage premium at every educational level, thus widening the wage gap.
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Mamiko Takeuchi, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan
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Conference: SEACE2025
Stream: Higher education
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To cite this article:
Takeuchi M. (2025) Changes in Gender Wage Gap by Educational Level in Japan ISSN: 2435-5240 The Southeast Asian Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 179-186) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2025.17
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2025.17
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