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Job security and work force adjustment : how different are US and Japanese practices?

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - 1989

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Job Security and Work Force Adjustment : How Different are U.S. and Japanese Practices?

Abraham, Katharine G. - 1989

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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Labor adjustment under different institutional structures : a case study of Germany and the United States

Houseman, Susan N. - 1993

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Exploring differences in employment between household and establishment data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2009

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Length of service and the operation of internal labor markets

Abraham, Katharine G.; Medoff, James L. - 1983

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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2009

Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...

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Labor Adjustment Under Different Institutional Structures : A Case Study of Germany and The United States

Houseman, Susan N. - 1993

Like most Western European countries, Germany stringently regulates dismissals and layoffs. Critics contend that this regulation raises the costs of employment adjustment and hence impedes employers' ability to respond to fluctuations in demand. Other German labor policies, however, most...

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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys

Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....

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