Nearly 60 percent of the nation's top companies plan to hire the same number of university graduates or more in spring 2014, the results of a survey released Sunday said.

The survey said that while the economic rhetoric of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has had a big impact on the stock market, there's been little impact so far on hiring plans beyond fiscal 2013.

Of the 108 companies surveyed, 46 (43 percent) said they will hire new recruits in fiscal 2014 nearly "at the same level" as the year before.