This study explores economic aspects of the market for long term care (LTC) with a special focus on Japan. First, we … describe the LTC system in Japan as presently implemented, and we highlight some aspects of the program that are novel and … of Japanese LTC utilization and costs. Finally, since Japan appears likely to experience important shortfalls in LTC in …

firms, in both Japan and the U.S., and relate them to differences in the rates of growth in their capital-labor ratios and … estimated effect of the growth in the capital-labor ratio on firm productivity is approximately twice as large in Japan than in …

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the …

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game ….S.and Japan during the first three decades of this century. In both countries, employment relations evolved from ones governed by …-term contracts and company-wide employee representation.The paper then documents the subsequent processes of bifurcation. While Japan …

, and the United Kingdom, but not in Japan. The observed increases in external orientation are in terms of industry export …