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Can educated women save Japan?

Efforts to bring more women into Japan’s labour market have enjoyed success in recent years.However, it remains the case that relatively few educated women are in paid work. We estimatethat lifting the labour force participation rate of women with tertiary education to the levels seenin other OECD countries could boost output by as much as 6%.

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