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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include a high degree of regulation in wage setting in most countries. Although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782501
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Barriers to skill acquisition : evidence from English training in India
Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2016
Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education - high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However, participation and completion rates in many of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532112
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
This paper uses Indian EUS-NSSO data on 32 states/union territories and 570 districts for a bi-annual panel with 5 waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions...
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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
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Trends in worker displacement penalties in Japan : 1991 - 2005
Bognanno, Michael Leonard (contributor);  … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608452
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571666
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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems : evidence from new Japanese data
Kato, Takao (contributor); Ōwan, Hideo (contributor) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561667
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The minimum wage in a deflationary economy : the Japanese experience, 1994 - 2003
Kanbayashi, Ryō; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965646
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Good jobs, bad jobs, and the Great Recession : lessons from Japan's Lost Decade
Kanbayashi, Ryō; Kato, Takao - 2012
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559205