Ueda overstating structural change in labour market

The Bank of Japan is overplaying the importance of structural changes in Japan’s labour market in explaining the post-pandemic pick-up in cost pressures. Even so, we still expect inflation to be sustained around the BoJ’s 2% target over the longer term.

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