This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world …), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United …

, the paper documents parallel institutional developments in the U.S. and Japan towards corporate welfarism during the 1920s …, most major employers in Japan maintained their implicit contracts, while developing institutional arrangements to mitigate … the cost of long-term commitment. In contrast to the U.S., labor laws in Japan developed complementary to private welfare …

This paper offers a comparative study of the evolution of employment systems in the U.S. and Japan, using a game …-theoretic framework in which an employment system is viewed as an equilibrium outcome of the strategic interactions among management ….S.and Japan during the first three decades of this century. In both countries, employment relations evolved from ones governed by …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the … US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable catching … Japan (30%), while TFP levels are very close in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, but much lower (40%) in …-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s …

century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth century for …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

, highlighting the experience of Japan. By a host of criteria, Japan appeared to be in a stronger position than most countries at the …. However, Japan followed a clear international boom-and-bust pattern in terms of real output growth, credit growth and stock … macroeconomic variables and institutional characteristics. The model predicts a high probability of banking sector distress in Japan …