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Plunging unemployment not enough for the BoJ

The recent plunge in Japan’s jobless rate suggests that wage growth will pick up faster than we had been anticipating. But we suspect that unemployment is now close to a floor so wage growth may never reach the rates necessary to meet the BoJ’s 2% inflation target.

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