An Adjustment Cost Model of Long-Term Employment in Japan.
A dynamic factor demand model is presented which pays special attention to the prevalence of a long-term employment relationship in Japan. The model is based on the representation of technology by a variable cost function with adjustment costs for employment and capital stock, where the variable cost consists of the sum of overtime costs and materials costs. With employment being quasi-fixed and scheduled hours institutionally regulated, short-run adjustments are mostly made by overtime hours. Application to a time-series data on the Japanese electrical machinery industry indicates quasi-fixity of capital and employment and reproduces short-run overshooting of overtime hours to compensate for the sluggish adjustment of employment. Copyright 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1993
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Authors: | Nakamura, Shinichiro |
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Journal of Applied Econometrics. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. - Vol. 8.1993, 2, p. 175-94
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