This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance … inequality in management). Turning to PRP, the fixed effect estimates suggest that a switch from the traditional wage system that …

coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices … complementarity involving task coordination modes, HRMPs, training and hiring, and management strategies, and illustrates how such … in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more …

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward bad jobs. Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward good jobs during Japan …