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Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies : micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
period 1994-2006 in Japan and 7,828 firms over the period 1993-2008 in the Netherlands, we first apply two procedures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009719637
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The gender wage gap in four countries
Daly, Anne E.; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006
comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253459
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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023
, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442576
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704338
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Baumol versus Engel: accounting for 100 years (1885-1985) of structural transformation in Japan
Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2019
This paper examines the drivers of the long-run structural transformation in Japan. We use a dynamic input … contributed to the rapid growth of GDP in Japan throughout the 20th century. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130126
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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452726
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Regionalism in West Africa: do polar countries reap the benefits? : A role for migration
Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002659526
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The impact of growth, labour cost and working time on employment : lessons from the French experience
L'Horty, Yannick (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790857
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Working hours in Japan : who is time-privileged?
Fuess, Scott M. (contributor) - 2006
elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the Japanese government has sought to transform the country into a "lifestyle … ; wage level and structure ; country studies: Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344605
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Labor-market attachment and training participation
Ikenaga, Toshie; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2010
participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate that expected attachment to the labor market affects …. -- training ; labor market attachment ; job tenure ; gender ; Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779172