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Market Access and International Competition : a Simulation Study of 16k Random Access Memories
Baldwin, Richard E.; Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
ask the following question: how much did the apparent closure of the Japanese market to imports affect Japan's export … otherwise have been uncompetitive both at home and abroad. We find, however, that Japan's home market protection nonetheless … produced more costs than benefits for Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232915
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Employment, Wages, and Unionism in a Model of the Aggregate Labor Market in Britain
Pencavel, John H. - 2010
Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760182
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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union
Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021
This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully characterized as the outcome of a process by which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218427
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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay
Cassoni, Adriana; Allen, Steven G.; Labadie, Gaston J. - 2021
This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221079
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Unionization and Employment Behavior
Blanchflower, David G.; Millward, Neil; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new British data set and shows that, even after the addition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240967
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The Trade-Off between Wages and Employment in Trade Union Objectives
Pencavel, John H. - 2021
This paper demonstrates that, contrary to a widely-held opinion, the determination of the goals of unions is fully amenable to empirical analysis. A characterization of the wage and employment-setting process in unionized markets is adopted and its qualitative implications examined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227228
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Crumbling Pillar? Declining Union Density in Japan
Freeman, Richard B.; Rebick, Marcus E. - 2021
This paper seeks to understand the recent decline of union density in Japan from 35% in 1975 to 28% in 1987. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248420
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Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan : A Historical Perspective
Oshio, Takashi - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125166
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778835
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Option Value of Work, Health Status, and Retirement Decisions in Japan : Evidence from the Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (JSTAR)
Shimizutani, Satoshi - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056597