Werden Japans junge Menschen wirklich ärmer? Eine Studie lässt Zweifel aufkommen. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass das real verfügbare Einkommen der 20- bis 34-Jährigen im Zeitraum 2018–2020 den höchsten Stand aller Zeiten erreichte und damit sogar die Ära der Blase übertraf
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251128/p2a/00m/0bu/010000c
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Haven’t read the article, but I’d wager that those with high disposable income either/or live with their parents or have no kids.
I’d also wager that it’s not unique to Japan.
Did not read the article, was the disposal income spending power also taken in to account?
More disposable income but did their disposable income double? Because everything else basically doubled since those 7 years besides income and savings for the normal people. Their buying power would be less.
asks the question today and answers it with data from 5 years ago lol
Let’s not forget that the bubble era was NEARLY FORTY YEARS AGO now. Claiming that your living standards are a bit higher than 40 years ago is really a very meagre level of accomplishment for an economy.
It’s not surprising that women have higher disposable incomes than the 80s – far more of them work.
I also have doubts about whether the huge increase in rent in major cities is being reflected properly here.
also, 2020 would be before all that inflation finally kicked in…
It’s the generation immediately above this one, from about 35 to 55, that is getting poorer. Too young for the bubble, but too old for the salary increases that some cash-flush companies are bestowing on young new hires these days.
A few articles talking about this disparity: [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.jp/article/268294/), [PHP](https://shuchi.php.co.jp/article/12236), [Bengoshi.jp](https://www.ben54.jp/news/2420). Employers are investing in young people and tossing the unlucky post-Bubble „Employment Ice Age“ (就職氷河期) generation aside. Those people are getting destroyed by inflation; getting poorer every time prices go up and their pay doesn’t.
And as the article says it has fallen since 2020.
Also this is measuring disposable income only among those without children. Since the birthrate has fallen significantly over the time period examined (since 1980) the more recent years are measuring disposable income among people who make up a much larger percentage of their age cohort than those in the 1980s did.
In simple terms your average 30 year old in the 80s was married with kids, a car, a mortgage, etc so they would be likely to have less disposable income.
Your average 30 year old today is single, no kids, lives with parents and pretty much all of their income is disposable.
Its not an accurate standard for comparing their economic well being.
If Japan is anything like the rest of the world that age group are living at home and not paying no recent so of course they have more disposable income.
Well 2015-2020 was an amazing time financially in Japan. This “news” seems pretty stupid considering just how much has happened in the past 5 years to change the economy. Goods are significantly more expensive than then and the yen is almost 50% weaker. It feels very dishonest publishing that article with that title
Man, the pre-covid era 2013-2019 is probably the best time we ever had. Before everything started going downhill, and after the recession of 2008/9 and most of it’s aftermath ended.
We will look at that time as one of the golden ages, in retrospect.
Everything nowadays is infinitely more expensive than it was in 2018.
This is a really weird metric. What exactly does „net income adjusted for price fluctuations“ mean? It could mean literally anything the authors wanted, depending on how you adjust the net income. It’s a pointless metric, because it can be designed to say anything the authors want. You could adjust the net income for price fluctuations in another way and get to the opposite conclusion.
Fact is that many young people today are struggling financially. This article is pure propaganda to justify precarious living conditions of the younger generations
I’d imagine they had less disposable income in the past because they were paying for a mortgage and family. It’s not really an achievement to have a little more cash in hand but be unable to afford those things.
I’d have more disposable cash if I lived with my parents, or didn’t buy nice things for myself, or did any other number of things that made my quality of life worse.
I highly doubt young people are getting richer. The biggest contributing factor imo is probably NOT wages increasing, but rather the fact that now-a-days societally women have a lot more rights and don’t feel pressured to marry before they’re 25 and have a kid before they’re 30. Thus, the same job with roughly the same pay feels more well off, especially for women, because there are far more single people living with their parents who either don’t pay rent or pay only a portion, don’t have to worry about a handful of other bills, and don’t have to worry about the expenses of raising a kid or kids. Compare that to someone with a decent job, but they’re the family’s sole income. They have to provide payment for rent for house suitable for a family of 3-5, not to mention food, clothing, etc.