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Job Security and Work Force Adjustment : How Different are U.S. And Japanese Practices?
Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2021
Japan; adjustment of employment is significantly greater in the United States, while that of average hours is about the same … in the two countries. Although workers in Japan enjoy greater employment stability than do U.S. workers, we find … is borne by production workers. In Japan, female workers, in particular, bear a disproportionate share of adjustment …
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Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan
Ono, Hiroshi; Rebick, Marcus E. - 2021
benchmark, we estimate that removal of these barriers would increase the productive labor supply in Japan by some 13 to 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225558
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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe
Gordon, Robert J. - 2021
. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …
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Financial Distress and Employment : The Japanese Case in the 90s
Ogawa, Kazuo - 2021
We examine quantitatively the extent to which financial distress in the 1990s affected employment behavior in Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228715
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Trade and Labor Market Outcomes
Helpman, Elhanan - 2011
This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching frictions in labor markets. It implies that the opening of trade may raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131679
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Labor Market Integration Before the Civil War
Margo, Robert A. - 2011
This paper uses newly collected archival evidence to examine various aspects of the geographic performance of American labor markets before the Civil War. Much of the paper addresses the evolution of regional differences in real wages, of interest to economic historians because they speak to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132817
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Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? Intercity and Interregional Variation in Male Earnings in Manufacturing
Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 2011
Recent studies of late nineteenth century labor market integration have found that despite high rates of geographic mobility relatively large inter- and intra-regional differentials in real wages persisted with little tendency toward convergence. These results point to the absence of a unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132982
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2010
In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants in a set of countries using an aggregate model of national economies. New in this literature we calculate the wage effect of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134804
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137307
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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