This paper aims to examine the recent changes in the Japanese youth labor market, particularly focusing on the impact of unprecedented adverse economic conditions. The number of temporary workers and the unemployment rate of youth have risen since the latter half of the 1990s, and they are more likely to be excluded from good job opportunities and safety nets such as public pension and insurance system. Since Japanese employers tend to maintain the traditional lifetime employment and seniority system, new graduates are less likely to obtain regular jobs. Data from the Japanese Life Course Panel Survey (from waves 1 to 3) were used in this analysis because this survey followed up the respondents' careers before and after the Lehman Shock. In order to estimate the probability of unstable job status at the time of conducting the survey, growth curve modeling was estimated. We found that the respondents whose first job was temporary were even more likely to be temporary workers or unemployed. However, the result was contrastive between males and females, particularly in the e

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