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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761863
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233838
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The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the generalized Leontief framework, the analysis of US census-based data reveals that labor of non-White ethnic groups is complementary to that of White ethnic group. This finding supports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822462
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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
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Job Displacement Penalties in Japan
Bognanno, Michael; Delgado, Lisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
from 2000 to 2003, a period of economic stagnation and structural change in Japan. We find that displaced workers suffer a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703790