ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a long term econometric model of economic growth in Japan from 1906 to 1940 - examines the effects of technological change, labour supply and demographic variables in a dualistic economy, and constitutes part of a WEP research project concerned with...

Looks at the extent of and policy responses to the problem of labour shortage in the economies of Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.