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been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …
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China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
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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 …
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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 …
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We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to which they were age-related grew. Evidence is also found of a diminishing specificity in human...
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Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...
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This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we also provide fresh insights on the...
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The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally …
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-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …
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cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …
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