This paper compares the Italian and the Japanese education systems and looks at the interaction between these systems and labour market outcomes. We model the Japanese labour market, characterised by the limited labour turnover and by the emphasis on hiring straight from school, and the Italian...

The purpose of this article is not to analyze or evaluate the performance of the Japanese employment custom directly. This article discusses the relationship between Japanese labor law and Japanese employment customs.

The purpose of this article is not to analyze or evaluate the performance of the Japanese employment custom directly. This article discusses the relationship between Japanese labor law and Japanese employment customs.

This paper compares the Italian and the Japanese education systems and looks at the interaction between these systems and labour market outcomes. We model the Japanese labour market, characterised by the limited labour turnover and by the emphasis on hiring straight from school, and the Italian...

This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...