Monday, October 2, 2017

Japan Needs More Immigrants!


Japan is Booming but its Citizens Population is decreasing. The World's third largest economy could be even in better shape by welcoming large scale immigration. The demographic challenges may soon start to overtly work in the economy's favor with unemployment down to 2.8 percent. Companies are starting to recognize the need to lack in staff before the hiring pool disappears and this means workers to be paid more. As admitted by lower base companies this is starting slowly, the raise of payment among part time workers in the small businesses.

Japan worries with the decreasing population as seen in their economic growth for the last quarter may be reverse to down growth as the population decrease with the consumption tax be more lower in the near future. Japan Prime Minister Shinzu Abe believes that the country's demographic challenges are still big, it needs to be either embrace large scale immigration as a solution to labor shortages or make greater use of robots.

Article Sources from: Bloomberg and Manila Standard.

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