NICs for the period 1980-95 and compares their specialisation pattern with that of more advanced economies like Japan, West …

uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan …

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …