However, since the number of companies which stopped hiring high school graduates due to the recession and increase in the number of high school graduates who went to university has increased in and after 1990s, workers entering adulthood decreased yearly.
しかし、1990年代以降は不況や大学進学者の増加などで高卒者の採用を取り止める企業が増えたため成人を迎える従業員も年々減少している。