Japan

Abstract

shows where conditions are ripe for quality job creation due to high skills supply and high skills demand across 47 prefectures in Japan. In 2010, 15 prefectures were in a “high skills equilibrium”, where a high supply of skills (the percentage of people with post-secondary education) is matched by a high skills demand (the percentage of medium and high skills occupations and GVA per worker). These places include the most populated prefectures of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Osaka and Aichi. Seventeen prefectures, including Hokkaido, Aomori and Okinawa can be found in a “low skills equilibrium” where low skills supply is matched by low skills demand. Seven prefectures showed skills deficit where skills demand exceeds supply, and nine prefectures showed skills surplus.