magnitude of the sensitivity of pay to stock market performance is comparable to the U.S. and Japan. Perhaps even more …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … of the most often discussed changes in the Japanese HRM system in recent years. Our fixed effect estimates indicate that …

analyze unique data from a new survey of Japanese firms which provide for the first time data on newer forms of HRMPs adopted … by Japanese firms (such as cross-functional offline teams and self-managed online teams). One novel finding (which is …

recent declines in levels of continuous improvement in Japanese manufacturing, we conducted extensive field research at two … Japanese manufacturing firms. After presenting our findings, we demonstrate that our model guides us to focus on several key …

Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the …

Taking advantage of a recent relaxation of Japanese government's data release policy, we conduct a cross …-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 …

-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 …