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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548723
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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233855
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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466022
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822674
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763717
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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan
Kobayashi, Miki; Usui, Emiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan … breastfeeding practices in Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884196
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884370
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession: Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kato, Takao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555239
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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754113
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Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005
Bognanno, Michael L.; Kambayashi, Ryo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to which they were age-related grew. Evidence is also found of a diminishing specificity in human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703738