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Skill, productivity, and wages : direct evidence from a temporary help agency
Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Kawaguchi, Daiji - In: Journal of labor economics : JOLE 42 (2024), pp. S133-S181
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014524836
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Training, productivity and wages : direct evidence from a temporary help agency
Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2022
Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to offer opportunities for skill acquisition, but few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209297
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Training, Productivity and Wages : Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency
Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2022
Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to offer opportunities for skill acquisition, but few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083680
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Training, productivity and wages : direct evidence from a temporary help agency
Dong, Xinwei; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342253
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Testing the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio - 2004
workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332192
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The productivity of public capital: Evidence from the 1994 electoral reform of Japan
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio; Tamada, Keiko - 2005
across regions in Japan, the stock amount of public capital could be endogenous because it could be allocated to either … public capital investment across regions in order to estimate the causal effect of public capital on production. Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332456
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The labor market in Japan, 2000-2018
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Hiroaki - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
As the third-largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan's recent …
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The minimum wage in a deflationary economy: The Japanese experience, 1994 - 2003
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271385
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Labor-market attachment and training participation
Ikenaga, Toshie; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2010
participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate that expected attachment to the labor market affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272651
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The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?
Arai, Yoichi; Ichimura, Hidehiko; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2015
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's long-term structural changes, induced primarily by deepening interdependence with emerging...
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