whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …-biased technology as the theory of directed technologial change would predict. Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a …

labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …

increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

and old people and the disability program in Japan. In particular, we explore the time series dimension to identify what … low; thus, the effect on labor force participation is very limited in Japan, which is in contrast with some European …

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be …

This study examined the factors that affect the retirement decisions of the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, focusing … Japan--where being enrolled in the disability program is unlikely to make one a candidate for the retirement path …

countries. In the present study, we overview the employment trend of the elderly in Japan, and examine what factors have …Japan experienced increases in labor force participation (LFP) of the elderly in recent years, as have other advanced … less physically demanding jobs have allowed the elderly to stay longer in the labor force. However, elderly employment …

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the …

.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite …