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Shunto not a leading indicator of wage growth

The conventional wisdom is that the annual spring wage negotiations (Shunto) are a bellwether for wage growth. In reality, the small number of employees covered by the talks and their bias towards workers in large manufacturing firms means that the Shunto is not a reliable leading indicator for labour costs.

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