Organizing rural-urban migration of young workers: roles of labor market institutions in postwar Japan

Table 2 The results of surveys on job applicants and job offers as of October 30, one year before graduation

Year of graduation	No. of job applicants	No. of job offers	Ratio of job offers per applicant	Ratio of job offers per applicant on June 30 of graduation year
Year of graduation	(A: thousand persons)	(B: thousand persons)	(B/A: times)	(times)
1957	487.9	318.6	0.7	1.2
1958	471.9	364.0	0.8	1.2
1959	487.4	382.8	0.8	1.2
1960	439.5	699.3	1.6	1.9
1961	325.4	859.1	2.6	2.7

Sources: Koyō Mondai Kenkyūkai, Shokugyō Antei Kōhō (bulletin for the Employment Security Bureau), February 1957, February 1958, January 1960, January 1961: Rōdōshō, Rōdō Shijō Nenpō (yearbook on Japanese labor market), each year