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The Stratified Expansion of Higher Education and Employment Inequalities in Japan
In recent decades, manufacturing automation and information technology have transformed the employment structures in advanced capitalist economies. According to Oesch (2015) and Sachs (2020), while lower-skilled manufacturing occupations decrease, the expansion of higher education upskills the labor force and places them in the growing high-skilled occupations that complement technology and automation. However, Japan seems to…