Kitagawa, Akiomi; Ohta, Souichi; Teruyama, Hiroshi - 2018
1 Overview -- Part 1: Theory -- 2 Flatter Wage Profiles and Reduced Lifetime Employment: A Simple Formalization -- 3 …This book reappraises the Japanese employment system, characterized by such practices as the periodic recruiting of new … graduates, lifetime employment and seniority-based wages, which were praised as sources of high productivity and flexibility for …