It increasingly appears that Japan’s unemployment rate is bottoming out. Recent data suggest that wage growth is picking up, but the surge that some policymakers had hoped for at this point in the economic cycle remains elusive. The admission today of major problems with how the wage data have been collected suggests that the underlying situation is even worse.
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