The extent to which wages rise with the accumulation of seniority(tenure) in a firm after one controls for total labor …, positive partial effect of tenure on wages. This paper re-examines the evidence using a simple instrumental variables scheme to … term of the wage equation. Our main findingis that the partial effect of tenure on wages is small, and that general labor …

The idea that wages rise relative to alternatives as job seniority accumulates is the foundation of the theory of … tenures typically earn higher wages tends to support these views, yet this evidence ignores the decisions that have brought … individuals to the combination of wages, job tenure, and experience that are observed in survey data. Allowing for sources of bias …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …

competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous …. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period … productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to …

, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …

We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …