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employment experience in the receiving country. However, such a simple model is not necessarily cross-culturally applicable and … achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of …
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We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender-stereotyped industrial arts and home economics classes in junior high schools led to behavioral changes among these students some two decades later when they were married and in their early...
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There is a growing body of evidence on the efficacy of Short-Time Compensation (STC), a subsidy to promote worksharing in a recession, in achieving its intended goal of curtailing layoffs and preventing a sharp rise in unemployment. However, very little is known about the consequences of STC for...
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Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan....
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skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US … are more likely to be leaders in school. -- non-cognitive skills ; school behaviors ; siblings …
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less important, except in Japan, than that of the unmeasured factors underlying TFP, such as labour skills, technical and …
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employment experience in the receiving country. However, such a simple model is not necessarily cross-culturally applicable and … achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of …
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This paper investigates procyclical productivity and attempts to discriminate among several competing explanations. The study focuses on the United States and Japan, since the different industrial relations in these two economies serve to cast a sharper light on the procyclical productivity...
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personnel office employment records in 41 manufacturing plants in Japan and 45 in the United States, explores how employee … commitment to the firm is shaped by organizational structure, employment practice, and other attributes of factories. The authors …
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … manufacturing employment in the year of its country's manufacturing peak and the subsequent change in total employment, reflecting … in a significant number of cases, total employment fully recovered and even exceeded initial levels, despite the loss of …
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