The pandemic has brought a halt to the last decade’s rise in Japan’s participation rate which had allowed the labour force to expand despite challenging demographics. Any post-pandemic recovery is likely to be short-lived: we expect the participation rate to drop back over coming decades and the labour force to be 17% smaller by 2050.
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