.g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … Hamamatsu, whereas it is negative in San Diego. The paper draws on data from ethnographic studies in Japan and California to …

separation risk is an important factor in the firm size-earnings differential in Japan, but not in the US …

.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite …

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …

proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and …. Using productivity growth indexes for industries in the U.S. and in Japan we test the hypothesis that rapid technical change … to Japan than to the U.S …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …