In this paper I examine regional labor market behavior in the United States and Japan. In contrast with the picture at … distribution) of wages, unemployment, employment growth, and migration remain remarkably constant in Japan for periods of up to 15 … be slightly more sensitive while unemployment is less sensitive to demand shifts in Japan than in the U.S …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

firms, in both Japan and the U.S., and relate them to differences in the rates of growth in their capital-labor ratios and … estimated effect of the growth in the capital-labor ratio on firm productivity is approximately twice as large in Japan than in …

previously unexploited panel data from the U.S. and Japan which provide a rich description of the firms' technological activities …

ramifications for the U.S., Europe and Japan of significant budget cuts in the U.S.; (2) the macroeconomic implications of a … protectionist tariff imposed by the U.S.; and (3) the scope for policy coordination among the U.S., Japan and Europe …In this paper we examine the macroeconomic interdependence of Japan and the U.S. using a medium-scale simulation model …

By 1981, Japan achieved both internal and external equilibrium; exports and imports roughly balanced at sixteen percent …