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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021

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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Long-Term Employment and Job Security Over the Last Twenty-Five Years : A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S

Kambayashi, Ryo - 2011

-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 …

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and the Great Recession : Lessons from Japan's Lost Decade

Kambayashi, Ryo - 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 …

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Work-Life Balance Practices, Performance-Related Pay, and Gender Equality in the Workplace : Evidence from Japan

Kato, Takao - 2015

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender …

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Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan

Kato, Takao - 2014

1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited …

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Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems : Evidence from New Japanese Data

Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2021

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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Does Employee Stock Ownership Work? Evidence from Publicly-Traded Firms in Japan

Kato, Takao - 2018

sample of publicly-traded firms in Japan (covering more than 75% of all firms listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange) over 1989 …

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The Consequences of Short-Time Compensation : Evidence from Japan

Kato, Takao - 2019

difference-in-differences methodology to unique data from Japan, a country known for its extensive use, and find that STC results …

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High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice : A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers

Bae, Kiu-Sik - 2010

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use of HPWPs. We find for both nations that: (i)...

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