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million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The same growth occurred in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Korea. The …
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advantage as of 1980 to have been only 1-2%, much less than previously estimated. This results from the fact that Japan began …
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Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …
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.S. automotive deficit with Japan, transplant production will not cause its elimination …
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manufacturers, and the fact that some of the most popular Japanese car models are assembled both in Japan and the U.S. We find … evidence that the Japan-assembled cars on average sell for more than those built in the U.S., but the estimated difference is … difference between the Japanese and U.S. built cars. For Hondas and more recent models of Toyotas, the Japan-built cars are no …
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We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …
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We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
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adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …
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Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...
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This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...
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