cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s … reduction in market time, with the free-up time in Japan reallocated to leisure and personal maintenance, while in Korea the …

from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …

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 …

uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job …

-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 …

are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan …