In this paper, I examine how the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) law in Japan has affected the residential decisions of men and women and the labor supply decisions of women. Cohorts of men and women who entered the labor market after finishing school later than the EEO law's passage in 1985 were more likely to reside in metropolitan areas (especially the Tokyo metropolitan area), whereas the concentration in those areas decreased during the recession period in the late 1990s. Highly educated women became more likely to work in regular full-time employment after the law's passage, and this phenomenon was most prevalent in Tokyo.
