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Re:The Japanese Urban Zoning System by kiba on Saturday August 20, 2016 @12:17PM (#12327187)
Unfortunately, while Japan does a great job on housing, they still experienced the lost decade.
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Re:The Japanese Urban Zoning System by twblalock on Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:32PM (#12327510)
And yet, during the lost decade, standards of living increased, and the highest unemployment rate ever recorded was only 5.6%.
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Re:The Japanese Urban Zoning System by mc32 on Saturday August 20, 2016 @02:54PM (#12327862)
I don't know about you, but I'll take our measure of 5.6% over their measure of 5.6% any day.
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Re:The Japanese Urban Zoning System by buster on Saturday August 20, 2016 @07:57PM (#12328845)
Can you explain, please?
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Re:The Japanese Urban Zoning System by mc32 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @02:57AM (#12329759)
You can take a look at this: http://lipperalpha.financial.thomsonreuters.com/2014/09/news...

Basically, underemployment, wage deflation, people leaving the workforce, rise in part-time labor, fall in full-time employment.

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