been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …

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 …

through which HPWPs lead to better enterprise performance. -- High performance work practices ; employee voice ; Japan ; Korea …

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …

China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all … unique setting for studying the economics of intergenerational relationships during development, given the rapidity of China …

cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s …

from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- immigration ; marriage ; sex ratio imbalance ; international marriages ; cross …